Chvilky (2018)

Anežka (Jenovéfa Boková) is a quiet young woman, a journalist and musician, who believes that every relationship, whether family or romantic, should be free of conflict—even at the cost of giving up her own point of view, which she hides from herself just as she refuses to express it. The film depicts everyday situations, whether with her lovers, who are already married and fathers, her talkative, cancer-stricken grandmother in her eighties, her mother, who has been depressed for a long time, her energetic father, or her senile grandfather in hospital. The director gives great importance to natural landscapes, including a recurring view of rolling hills shown in different seasons, marking the passage of time. In the second half of the film, the heroine eventually begins to reveal a little of herself, notably during a visit to a therapist, marked by long silences, and during her night with a Slovak musician. The final sequences open out onto nature and convey an optimistic sense of serenity.