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I Served The King Of England

28 August 2008 1:03 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Along with early Milos Forman films like Loves Of A Blonde and The Firemen's Ball, Jiří Menzel's 1966 feature Closely Watched Trains, which won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, ushered in the Czech new wave, a brief but potent movement characterized by a mix of dark comedy, political tartness, and underlying humanism. When the Soviets all but extinguished the new wave in the late '60s, many directors (including Forman, who went on to make One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus) fled to the West, but Menzel stuck around and made only a couple more movies—1969's long-banned Larks On A String (which didn't surface until 1990) and 1985's Oscar-nominated My Sweet Little Village. They never got much recognition abroad. Forty years after his breakthrough, Menzel has returned with I Served The King Of England, and it's like he never left. A ribald black comedy about the...

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