The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
– A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable..
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperatly searches in superficial, fleeting sex.
Czech
Vera Chytilová
Jirí Brdecka (story), Vera Chytilová, Ester Krumbachová
Leos Sucharípa, Libuse Pospísilová, Vlasta Spicnerová, Jirí Hálek
This film was made as a kind of a "protest-song" against the panic fear of getting old and also against flirtation. The main character (played by Leos Sucharípa) is an elderly man, admittedly competent, but not very responsible. In the continuous fear, he is trying to do as much as he can but, instead of confidence, he only finds out that in the real life one cannot just take but must give as well. Last but not least, one must be able to resign to his age.