This broad-hearted ensemble comedy was a box office hit in its home country, the Czech Republic. After determining that his wife Zuzana's nose is just too big, TV weatherman Oskar cheats on her with the family's vapid nanny, leading to a downward spiral that finds him out of a job and in a series of loveless affairs. In the meantime, Zuzana has no problem finding a new partner in divorced single father Matej, aided in no small part by Oskar's parents. Full of fine details and subtle wit, this delightful film skirts tragedy and plunges headlong into farce.

DIR/SCR Jan Hrebejk; SCR Jiri Machácek, Michal Viewegh; PROD Rudolf Biermann. Czech Republic, 2008, color, 88 min. In Czech and Slovak with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Saturday, November 14, 7:30; Wednesday, November 18, 7:00

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