In her first film, Vera Chytilova (1929-2014) would already make her mark with a characteristic combination of feminism and experiment with the aptly titled Something Different (1963), which juxtaposed the unrelated lives of a garden-variety housewife (filmed as fiction) with that of a world champion gymnast (filmed as semi-documentary). In her acclaimed 1966 release, Daisies, Chytilova produced a complex, non-narrative film based on the self-destructive shenanigans of two teenage heroines who decide that since the world had already been spoiled, nothing much else matters.
Chytilova's attraction and that of her husband and cinematographer Jaroslav Kucera, to the visual in its own right was that more apparent in Ovoce stromu rajskych jime ( Fruit of Paradise, 1970), an incredibly rich, beautiful film with a deliberately ambiguous narrative in which 'nothing is as it seems." Though the film was seemingly a retelling of the story of Adam and Eve, the director's objectives were Joycean , her remit was to make any single interpretation of her films impossible and effectively force a conclusion that what has been seen forms only partial truths.