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From the father-son writer-director team that made Kolya (Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film in 1997), comes this comedy about...
From the father-son writer-director team that made Kolya (Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film in 1997), comes this comedy about the post-retirement antics of a cantankerous Czech horndog. Empties was a smash hit in it's native Czech Republic.
65 year old Josef (Zdenek Sverak) retires from teaching after being reprimanded for pouring water over an insolent kid. Avoiding his permanently disappointed wife (theirs is a love-hate relationship), he takes a job at the bottle return department of a Prague supermarket. From here the old grump - when not fantasising about women half his age - sets about speculating on and/or disrupting the lives of customers and co-workers.
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100 %5 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
82 %2,051 reviewsAudience score rating
"Makes for bittersweet dramedy."
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Variety
Variety"Lacking the verve and the irreverent spirit which flowed so naturally in Kolya, and without a narrative backbone that would hold its various rickety components together, this looks more like a Czech family affair whose secret charms, whatever they are, remain hidden to outside eyes."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"A slightly jarring tone hampers the story of an old curmudgeon."
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New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Herald"Has a quirky European sense of humour, and a cast of very likeable characters."
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Newshub
Newshub"Josef's frustration is perhaps too perfectly realised and the audience is made to share it, which is not necessarily a comfortable thing. But it is enhanced by terrific characterisation, with every character being fully realised."
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Dominion Post
Dominion PostEmpties (Vratné lahve) | Details
- Runtime
- 100
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama
- Country of origin
- Czech Republic
