The Simple Truths of Jiri Menzel Fleas that live on dogs do not bite people. When city dwellers leave the bustle of cities and flee to nature, to a farm near the forest, they do not know what it is to measure the time for harvesting or what is the difference between the “dead” and “dead”. How to live in harmony with nature, when you are irritated by everything - from chickens wandering around the house and ending with the notorious fleas, "who do not bite people", but for "urban" for some reason make an exception. You can get used to and like a local miller depict a native resident of the farm, for this you just need to sprinkle a hat with flour and defiantly shake it off in front of city friends. What prompted the family of four to leave Prague and settle in the farm, we will never know.
Jiri Menzel, only at the very beginning of the film will put in the mouth of the head of the family the phrase about the bustle of life. Together with the house on the farm, the family "buys" and his owner - a lonely old man, Mr. Komarek, who really somewhere in the city has a son and seems to be ready to accept his father, but the words remain, the old man does not move or die is not going. Jiri Menzel - "soft satirist", turns here into a subtle lyricist. Simple truths according to Menzel - love each other, be tolerant, packed in an elegant shell. The director seemed to have decided to take a break from his “spiny” films and went to the farm by the forest. And fleas don't bite him.
7 out of 10