{"id":228,"date":"2022-05-15T15:32:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memora8ilia.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/15\/the-conversation-whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf\/"},"modified":"2022-05-15T15:32:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T15:32:16","slug":"the-conversation-whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memora8ilia.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/15\/the-conversation-whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1543\" data-orig-width=\"1094\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/7ec3e4d07feffbb38875b88bd29507a7\/d21e7fa464d48dea-27\/s640x960\/b15dfbb9925a1331616447d68678b90b4de60bf8.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"1543\" data-orig-width=\"1094\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><i>The Conversation<\/i> + <i>Who&rsquo;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<\/i> + <i>Alphaville<\/i> = <i><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/film\/the-ear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ucho (The Ear)<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A tense, enthralling, and masterful depiction of the entwining of the personal and political as a part of life under a totalitarian regime. <i>Ucho<\/i> was filmed in 1969 in Czechslovakia and was unsurprisingly banned for 20 years, receiving its first wide release in 1990.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u275d The creation and suppression of <i>The Ear<\/i> were political events in themselves, and the film refers fearlessly to many taboo subjects of the Stalinist era: Party debauchery, anti-Semitic arrests, favoritism and corruption. But as courageous as is the film\u2019s content, it should not overshadow [director Karel] Kachy\u0148a\u2019s innovative style. The film alternates scenes of the couple at home and flashbacks showing their increasingly sinister evening at the Party soiree. These flashbacks make extensive use of subjective camera from Ludv\u00edk\u2019s viewpoint as he tries to find out why the minister he works for, Ko\u0161ara (n\u00e9 Karpeles \u2014 a Jewish name), has been arrested, and whether he himself might be next. \u275e <a href=\"https:\/\/eefb.org\/retrospectives\/karel-kachynas-the-ear-ucho-1970\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"696\" data-orig-width=\"960\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/64e681346f7d08964c54646f33c117d6\/d21e7fa464d48dea-ea\/s640x960\/f750d4a1c843835cc24d82bca3416af835e5c91a.png\" data-orig-height=\"696\" data-orig-width=\"960\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1072\" data-orig-width=\"1472\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/f724f271ff1094bd796b42900fe5006a\/d21e7fa464d48dea-4d\/s640x960\/2504cdf7fc604726f5e9a141a8495f6606e064f6.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"1072\" data-orig-width=\"1472\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"528\" data-orig-width=\"700\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/947a40dfb79f02d653a8d7f1f2bdfca4\/d21e7fa464d48dea-2f\/s640x960\/139d232684be78aa2853d3f588243557ce43eed0.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"528\" data-orig-width=\"700\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"435\" data-orig-width=\"576\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/955f7d1b0e97efb37318b6fae577f0b7\/d21e7fa464d48dea-ac\/s640x960\/abda18a811746a0dea95d0d5fec57b1683afe312.gif\" data-orig-height=\"435\" data-orig-width=\"576\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conversation + Who&rsquo;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? + Alphaville = Ucho (The Ear) A tense, enthralling, and masterful depiction of the entwining of the personal and political as a part of life under a totalitarian regime. Ucho was filmed in 1969 in Czechslovakia and was unsurprisingly banned for 20 years, receiving its first wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[280,1021,810,749,807,750,1016,1022,1018,1019,1017,1020],"class_list":{"0":"post-228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"tag-art-film","8":"tag-art-movie","9":"tag-banned-film","10":"tag-czech-film","11":"tag-czech-movies","12":"tag-czechoslovakia","13":"tag-karel-kachyna","14":"tag-surveillance","15":"tag-the-ear","16":"tag-totalitarian-regime","17":"tag-ucho","18":"tag-young-wave","19":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>- MEMORA8ILIA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/memora8ilia.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/15\/the-conversation-whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"- MEMORA8ILIA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Conversation + Who&rsquo;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? + Alphaville = Ucho (The Ear) A tense, enthralling, and masterful depiction of the entwining of the personal and political as a part of life under a totalitarian regime. 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