Taken from the September 2013 issue of Dazed & Confused:
Soaking up black-and-white Sovietera new wave while barely out of Babygros is par for the course for kids of gloomy arthouse maestros. That’s why Alice Englert, star of Ginger & Rosa, was pleased that Miloš Forman’s black-humoured Czech gem Loves of a Blonde (1965) lightened the diet. In it, a factory-town girl has a one-night stand with a musician, then arrives with a suitcase on his
Prague doorstep – where he lives with his parents.
“At my mum’s house in Australia I snuck into the DVD room and put on Loves of a Blonde. At first I thought, ‘Oh fuck, another arthouse film’ – but I’d never seen anything like it. I was a young horse-crazy girl and hadn’t noticed boys yet, or had any real experience apart from cantering around. I love the relaxed way it observes these absurd things that do happen.”
