I. The Czechoslovak New Wave

The Czechoslovak New Wave was an artistic movement in cinema that pretty much covered the early 60s and was represented, among others by directors such as: Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel, Vera Chytilova, Jaromil Jire and Juraj Herz.
However , its roots go 4 decades back when Devětsil – an association of czech avant-gardists was formed(Pragues, 1920).
When the Communist regime has taken over  in Czechoslovakia in 1948,  students of FAMU(Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts In Prague) took notice of the unwelcoming changes that this regime brought and wanted to make people aware that “they were participants in a system of oppression and incompetence which had brutalized them all”.
	Having said that, it is easy to hint that some its trademarks were long unscripted dialogues, dark and absurd humour and topics that regard the misguided youths of their society, or the misguided ethic which leads people to blindly condemn what others are born with(and I am not talking about rage, violence, greed, or other things that one should overcome).

	II.   Valerie

	“Valerie and her week of wonders” is one falling mostly on the latter category. On the surface, the film is a surreal fantasy revolving around a young girl's maturation into womanhood. Beyond that, the film can also be seen as a violent and cheerful reaction against they way some systems may deprive people of what they really are. And while this is not depicted in a traditional fashion, there are enough enough scenes/pieces of dialogue clearly suggesting that.
	For example:

	Grandmother: Hedvika is marrying
	Valerie: Poor Hedvika

	The marriage here is not seen as an act that is consented by both parties, but as something that is enforced, as a form of mutilation inflicted upon a woman so that she, in return, can inflict it on others. A form of sustained and organized disease, if you may. One can think of arranged marriages of enforced submission or other things related.

	Also, as many may expect, church figures are not left out of the ecuation either. Priests here, and men generally are either barbaric figures, either