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Jiří Menzel’s I Served the King of England (Czech title: Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále) is a near-masterpiece; individual scenes are stunning, the production is first-rate, the ironic life of Jan Dítě (Dítě means ‘child’ - and Jan is a tiny man) compelling. That the film doesn’t quite come together as a cohesive whole is almost beside the point – Menzel may have not done justice to the beloved novel by Bohumil Hrabal (which I have not read), but he’s molded the source material into something uniquely his own, and in the process created a film of rare beauty. The director’s sixth adaptation of works by Hrabal (following Pearls of the Deep, the Oscar-winning Closely Observed Trains, Larks on a String, Short Cut, and The Snowdrop Festival) is just as good as any of them.

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IMDB - 7.6/10

Screen: 16:9
Sound: Czech - Dolby Digital 5.1 and Stereo 2.0 (czech)
Subtitles: Czech
Total time: 114 minutes