Loves of a Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky)Forman deploys the semi-documentary style of the French New Wave to tell the poignant story of a principled worker (Hana Brejchova) in a small town shoe factory who spends the night with a visiting musician.
Infused with an extraordinarily acute sense of humour and sympathy, Forman's international breakthrough is "an amazing balancing act of subtle social satire and adolescent romantic longing, of blank despair and irrepressible hope" (Dave Kehr).
This formative but adventurous work is probably the defining film of Forman's 1960s Czechoslovakian career.
