The Ride (1994) @ Jízda

At a glance:
Watered-down, psychosexual cat-and-mouse chase filled with cod philosophy and annoyingly regular breaks for music video montages of Czech pop songs written by one of the leads as well, it seems. Alternatively, it's an idyllic summer's drive past the country for two bored thirtysomethings who innocently pick up a mysterious redhead on the road, without her knickers on. Either way, if you're familiar with director Jan Sverák's award-winnin Kolja (1996), you'd know he won't exactly bore the paint off cinema walls. For a road movie, the characters are necessarily well-developed - two good friends who talk about everythin from the old Eastern bloc to the price of sex in proportion to a bottle of Jim Beam. They already make decent entertainment even before the beautiful Anna Geislerová (pic) enters as the runaway broad. The trio's dynamics are interestin because the two men are constantly threatened by her possible disappearance.

Bad news on the doorstep:

The beautiful and talented Anna Geislerová

When I realise that's not really the story. By its choice of soundtrack, one suspects we're taken on this titular ride for no more than a half-arsed reflection on the mediocrity of urban livin and the fleetingness of life in general, compounded by some very interestin shots on anthills and seventysomethin farmhands. For this, at least there is one resoundin advantage - it's no culture-sensitive story that'd be lost to a non-Czech, and the three people in that car could well be drivin from Bangsar to Bukit Kayu Hitam, wonderin who will have sex with whom first.
Reminds me of:
Drivin in the summer from Sheffield to Scarborough on the M18.
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Perhaps best watched on that school holiday in between college and high school, The Ride seems short enough if you didn't pay for it, and long enough if you did. ★★★

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