Ester Krumbachová was a cinematic powerhouse of the Sixties, a Czech New Wave multihyphenate writer, art director, costume designer, and eventual director of her own film, 1970’s Murdering the Devil. She was banned from working during the Eighties by the Czech communist party because of her involvement in A Report on the Party and the Guests, a 1966 political satire directed by Jan Němec, who was ultimately ousted from Czechoslovakia altogether. Krumbachová’s only film, co-written by Němec, is a farcical take on a date from hell, wherein a fortysomething woman decides to romance an old childhood friend who turns out to be (perhaps literally) the devil. – Lina Fisher
Feb. 21-22
