黑彼得 Cerný Petr (1964)

　　Forman's feature debut was this screen adaptation of Jaroslav Papousek's story about 16-year-old supermarket worker Peter, his bathhouse partner Pavla and their circle of friends. Set in the late 1940s, the film has a ...展开distinctly ‘60s mindset: Peter and Pavla can, arguably, be credited as the film that kicked off the short-lived Czech New Wave. While Peter trolls the aisles in his dead-end grocery job and listens to the droning lectures of his parents, subtle humour, allegory, and easy familiarity mingled to create the hallmarks of the movement. Forman expertly crafts an ironically dual critique through the observational tone of the picaresque generational narrative: there’s less a conflict as there is an equal amount of frustration.
　　
　　Golden Sail Award at Locarno International Film Festival
　　
　　It reconfirms that an artistic work created by the cinema verite method can also be a full expression of stylized reality. Peter and Pavla proved Forman's exceptional ability to see in detail, to capture the unrepeatable, small incidents of life, incidents chosen with uncanny insight as being socially representative.
　　
　　- Mira & Antonin J. Liehm
　　
　　米路斯．科曼真是個不折不扣的電影作者，他的主角從來都是心智未熟的孩子，卻要面對無法認同的環境；不論是毛髮青年、音樂神童，抑或性書大亨，這母題早於他的首作中建立。十六歲的砌磚學徒彼德被安排在超市工作，上司卻要他當告密者，監視可疑份子；他不情不願，不情願的還有他跟父親的關係。請別誤會這是劍拔弩張的激烈故事，年輕的科曼獨有識愁的觸覺，正寫沒趣人生，卻帶出其懶洋洋的溫柔，還原普通人的美麗與哀愁，走出英雄或悲劇英雄的格式，與社會主義寫實的剛烈路線大異其趣。
　　
　　盧卡諾國際電影最佳電影金帆獎
　　
　　此作的成就，充份說明真實電影的拍法，亦可以把現實作風格化的呈現。科曼的首作《彼德與柏芙拉》證明他觀察細節，以及捕捉獨特生活小事的稟賦非同尋常。他以不可思議的洞察力，捕捉了滿有社會代表性的事件。
　　
　　- 捷克流亡作家兼影評人Mira & Antonin J. Liehm
　　
　　Source: HKIFF Czech New Wave 2006