„As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.“ A line that would make any B-movie director proud. But first impressions can be misleading. With these words Franz Kafka opens his famous novella. And they are also heard in the opening of its film adaptation, made shortly after his emigration from the dung beetle reality of the communist Czechoslovakia by the enfant terrible of the Czechoslovak New Wave, Jan Němec. The story unfolds solely from Gregor’s perspective and this original approach creates a uniquely disturbing atmosphere. Do not be afraid and come to Aero to feel and explore, through the incredibly tactile camera, all the musty corners of the apartment of an orderly bourgeois family, behind whose respectable facade lies inherent brutality and cruelty.
