Intimate Lighting [Blu-ray]

An extremely subtle portrayal of rural life in clash with the urban elite thinking, the film very admirably manage to maintain a balance between sensitivity, comicality and surrealism -- as many eastern European projects are known to. In merely 70 minutes, the film efficiently dwells deep into various characters' inner worlds via gestures, words and expressions, exposing regrets, longings, happiness and resilience. It's such a myriad world that everyone will find something they can identify with. A great package of finely restored film, quality subtitles, valuable special features and useful booklet.It might sound cheesy, but I wonder, being a foreigner in a country with virtually no art house market at all, what I should do without Second Run. Its persistent focus on Eastern Europe old classics (not only that, of course) is a treasure for arthouse film lovers. It's good to have some of them always at your side and ready for another viewing any time.

Superb award winning film on small budget. You won't fail to be moved. Main character is unknown amateur who himself has a real life secret....watch and read more behind the scenes chat. Brilliant stuff.

Delightful film - the director seamlessly blends together so many different tones.Masterpiece of the Czech New Wave - probably my favourite film from this movement.Great release from Second Run. Excellent picture quality. Highly recommended.

Taking his young city girlfriend along for the trip, a man visits old musical friends in a country village for a string quartet rehearsal.This 1965 film has a number of connections with Milos Foreman's early docu-drama Rehearsal/Audition (also just released on DVD), but Intimate Lighting is a much more fully realized film. It's one of those quirky classics of the Czech New Wave: lots of understated humour & pathos & little surrealist touches or observations. It's beautifully conceived and realized; great cinematography & editing, making for a very quick-witted film (as opposed to merely comic) and having the uncontrived bittersweet quality that the best East European film, particularly Czech, had in the 1960s and which you rarely find elsewhere. Excellent DVD edition from Second Run (watch out Masters of Cinema!), including interview with director and an informative booklet. After finding out the background info concerning the main actor I realized the film was even more poignant, almost unbearably so. One other recommendation: this was one of Kieslowski's ten favourite films!