Miloš Forman
5 titles · european arthouse
The individual against the institution, first in Czech, then in America. Forman began with loose, near-documentary Czech comedies about ordinary people and petty officialdom, then carried the same eye to the US — a psychiatric ward, a concert hall — where a free spirit is ground down by the system around it.
Signature
- Dry social comedy from non-professional-feeling ensembles (the Czech films).
- Free individuals broken by institutions (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus).
- Officialdom and mediocrity satirised (The Firemen's Ball).
- Later prestige biography built on the same anti-authority core.
Amadeus
Black Peter
Loves of a Blonde
The Firemen's Ball
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