Intimate Lightning
(Intimni osvetleni)

Newly Restored 35mm Print
Screening on Film
Recently Restored

Directed by Ivan Passer.
With Zdenek Bezusek, Vera Kresadlova, Jaroslava Stedra.
Czechoslovakia, 1965, 35mm, black & white, 72 min.
Czech with English subtitles.

Before leaving his homeland for the USA in 1969, Passer made two films, including this gentle masterpiece. A Prague cellist and his beautiful, sophisticated mistress visit old friends in a provincial town, where they eat, drink, play music and reminisce. The film demonstrates Passer’s enchantment with nature and music and his great interest in the psychological observation of character. A tender, well-observed comedy about life’s everyday pleasures and lost opportunites.