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Zawana is confronted with several paths that open out defiantly before him, and he has to choose which one to take as the next step on his life's journey. The youth enters a small village monastery somewhere in Burma, led by its superior U Dahma. Zawana and the other novices are, as befits their age, playful and disobedient, and they find it hard to abide by the laws of the monastic robe. However, when U Dahma, who hasn't been running the monastery with a particularly firm hand, falls ill, the young man realises that perhaps it's time to step out resolutely onto one of the paths and surrender to the school of life – and not only because his superior's death could mean the closure of the monastery. This fragile film draws the viewer into a remarkable environment, intelligibly portraying a vulnerable and crucial period in the protagonists' lives without superfluous dialogue. The story moves away from aspects of meditation and even spirituality, focusing more on universal values and desires, whose fulfilment itself presents a difficult challenge. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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(49th KVIFF) If on top of everything, The Monk was also in black and white, it’d be exactly the stereotype of what the average person who’s never been to the Karlovy Vary festival, but considers it a boring and snobbish parade of boring art, imagines as a festival film.
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Photo © 18. MFDF Ji.hlava 2014
