Beauty In Trouble

Aroview: Exquisite Czech drama focused on a young woman living in Prague who, while struggling to care for her family after their home is destroyed by a flood, is torn between her duties as a wife and mother and her love for a wealthy, elderly gentleman.

Cloaked in a deceptively conventional 'will she/won't she?' love story, this is a magnificent blend of tragi-comic woe and sharp social commentary on the after-effects of communism, its biggest achievement is a delicate moral ambiguity that compels you to empathise with each character's plight, no matter how despicable (or amusingly unpredictable) their behaviour. Will leave you pondering its depths for days.