'Up and Down' and all around, Prague's populace copes
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

Like "Love Actually" with a Balkan accent, "Up and Down" crisscrosses among several stories, with main characters in one plot showing up as subordinate or even tangential ones in another. Director Jan Hrebejk deftly merges absurdity and heartache as he touches on racism, family problems, xenophobia, the inadequacy of the justice system and the Czech Republic's struggle to reinvent itself in some meaningful way. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
The discovery of an abandoned child by two smugglers leads to a series of comic and tragic events. (In Czech, English, German and Russian, with subtitles.)

FILM FACTS ...
Sony Pictures Classics
Up and Down

Director: Jan Hrebejk
Starring: Petr Forman, Emilia Vasaryova and Jan Triska
Run time: 108 minutes
Release date: February 25, 2005
Rating: R for language, sexual content and brief violence.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B+
"Pungent and spirited ... shows us a nation in transition that's not necessarily a nice place to live, but it's certainly worth a visit — especially at the movies."

The Palm Beach Post: B-
"...casts a critical eye to the class struggle and the struggle for survival..."


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