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This is a film from Czeck writer director Jiri Vejdelek that would lie in the area of comedy and melodrama, of a group of disparate vacationers on a one-week package bus holiday to an Adriatic seaside resort. In includes almost all age groups in the travelers, giving it the feel of nobody is excluded. What attracted me to the picture initially was the idea of seeing some good scenery and the picture of the beautiful girl looking back in the camera on the bus ride on the Tribeca brochure. In the film, this girl is a starting out pop star, who is as pleasant in this film as she looked in the picture in the brochure. Yet she doesn’t come across an actor acting in a film, but just a wonderful person inside and out. A couple of themes seem to go through the week. It seems like there is a bit of a rush to get going on some relationships for the week. Two of the girls are sunbathing on the beach, but it seems like this it not enough and the one girl tells here friend that she feels that boredom is driving her on. She needs to look no further than over her shoulder to the lifeguard chair to find her target for the week, but when she moves away, her buddy girlfriend feels slighted. As the movie develops, it seems like the major theme is everyone wants some company or additional company. Another young women, traveling with her mother, somehow reaches the conclusion that she has too settle, based on not being super pretty. This itself was questionable, she seemed attractive on screen and it would be highly doubtful that this would be the case or should be the case. She meets the science fiction loving surfer, who only seems to be able to approach unsuspecting women from his underwater snorkeling positions. When he is pointed out for being an underwater snoop, she sticks up for him, pointing to her own foibles and really that others might be similar in their own ways in the beachside roundup. He seems athletic but awkward around women, and she tries after finding out they have a lot in common, such as a love for science fiction, to break this awkwardness by showing similar sides to him. Maybe she had the same predispositions in some ways, but she had them more under control, and was able to summon them or summon them away in controlled fashion and in this case she conjures them up for the cause of making him feel more at ease. In any event, the spin on some of the characters is that they feel slightly misfit and there is a little bit of the toy from misfit island in the character developments for a couple of the characters. There were a couple of interesting resolutions here. Without giving away the story, two of the characters who having trouble in their adjustments run into some sympathetic, very pleasant women coming forward in manner with a pleasant resolution which does work. Overall the women in this film were very pleasant, and in somewhat unconventional ways and situations, almost as if they were trying to introduce themselves as representing another side of the world of possibilities. Weaved in with the stories is some dazzling scenery of the seaside towns and play on the surf, with some jumps off the 35 foot cliff into the water off to the side. One scene that was particularly interesting was when the beautiful girl singer spends the night on the beach with one of the guys. As the sun is coming up in the morning, she says to him that the experience was beautiful, but he just walks off not even responding. This was quite a poignant scene, both in how it was filmed, the low lying light of the morning was just perfect and the relationship of this girl’s persona to the event. In the movie, her voice, her manner and presentations seem to show that she is a wonderful person, beautiful both inside and out. In her human need, she reaches out, but there is still a schism. Her appreciations are in no way matched by her transient lover. She deserves better and the best, but the immediate world around her doesn’t have that. It is interesting though, just how this intersection did happen, and how someone that good would end up with the lesser. But regardless of this, this one part of the film reveals of a beautiful person, who also has a wonderful capacity for appreciating beauty herself, and how these appreciations also reveal in the final songs that she wrote and sings at the end of the movie as well as throughout the movie. You do think just from this scene, about greater schisms faced by the wonderful person, like the wonderful person standing in a war torn area, and how this can and does happen in the imperfect world. This movie does deliver for the most part, and what I found most interesting was the way some of the women tried to reach through into the realities of the moment
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