Fulmaya, děvčátko s tenkýma nohama

O filme é mais uma confissão de Dorota Nvotova sobre os seus vários anos de vida do que um documentário sobre o Nepal ou a vida em Catmandu. Temos um vislumbre da capital do país através das atividades caritativas de Dorota (ajuda as crianças no orfanato e nas ruas), mas se os cineastas também nos tivessem dito algo geral sobre a vida local com uma voz-over complementar, ao filme teria sido dado um valor documental mais dimensional. Contudo, a comparação de Dorota das «dificuldades de ser» ali e em Bratislava, feita por uma rapariga imediata e sincera que não tem medo de usar palavras fortes, torna o filme pessoal e autoral o suficiente para que encontre algumas das ideias nele contidas e simpatize com a heroína. Boa música. (01/05/2013)

It's like this: Fulmaya is certainly not an independent documentary that impartially examines a phenomenon, problem, or state of things. It is a personal confession of a young and emotionally unstable artist, Dorota Nvotová, who is somewhat bored with the truth in Central Europe and doesn't know where to direct her energy. She therefore sets out to spread good in the foothills of the Himalayas. Unfortunately, Dorota Nvotová's spreading of good somewhat resembles Daniel Landa's fight against evil, i.e., her self-centeredness, posing, inability to self-reflect, and lack of patience. Dorota has something in common with the protagonist of the film God Is Great and I'm Not, portrayed by Audrey Tautou, who managed to explore all world religions in one film in her search for herself. The motif of leaving home and searching for the meaning of life reminded me of the famous painter Paul Gauguin. He was so tired of the bourgeois homeland, where people just monotonously go to work, raise children, and take care of elderly household members, that he set out to discover exotica. In the Pacific, he ate European canned food, strictly applied European measures, made no effort to understand local contexts or learn from local cultures, but sought, and it stands to reason, that he reliably found, an idealized paradise that he had dreamed of in France and that distanced him from mundane reality. Similarly, thousands of young people leave Europe, although they usually do not write books about it, make films, or become (highly debatable) symbols of charity. By the way, speaking of charity, my company has a charitable program called Time for a Good Cause, where employees are dressed in t-shirts with the company logo and are allowed to help seniors, to later present ourselves as a company with social empathy and to use these activities for advertising purposes. I have nothing against it, those people's money and energy could have been used in incomparably worse ways, but this way of doing good does not fill me with admiration and the desire to join it... Overall impression: 10% for zero emotional identification with Dorota. (17/06/2013)

Dorota Nvotová made a personal film, which is nice. There is a message here that makes sense, and we also get to see how life is not easy, but I can't the fact that I just didn't enjoy this film. Every now and then, though, I thought the music was really good. But only in a few places. Otherwise nothing really blew me away. (16/02/2018)