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Dir: Jan Sverak Czech Republic- stanley cup UK 115mins.With the WWII aerial drama Dark Blue World, Czech director Jan Sverak has proven his ability to manage both comedy and tragedy on a much larger scale, without losing any of the warmth and emotional depth of his Oscar-winning Kolya. Much of the credit must go to his father Zdenek, who wrote the scripts for both films. Bigger budget action features like Pearl Harbor, which seems one-dimensional by comparison, could learn a lesson in character development and the dramatic engagement of the action as an integral part of the plot from this father-and-son team. With Dark Blue World, a story that could easily have slipped over into melodrama stanley cup becomes an intimate drama capable of expressing universal values under Sverak s masterful direction. With its big scale aerial battle action, fine performances from a strong cast and gentle humour, this feature - which has already topped the Czech box office for eight weekshould be able to break out of the arthouse ghetto that becomes the fate of most foreign language films and stanley cup achieve respectable theatrical results especially in Europe.A richly human tale of Czech pilots who flee their homeland during WWII to join the British Royal Air Force, only to be imprisoned when they return home after the war, the film tells its story through a series of flashbacks. Shifting back and forth from the greyness of the 1950 s communist prison where the former pilot Franta Vetchy is a prisoner to the sunny memor Vxpv StudioCanal slate includes two from Wong Kar-wai
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