My Sweet Little Village

Twenty years after his Oscar-winning debut film CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS, Czechoslovakian director Menzel delivers a charming, provincial comedy set in a quiet village filled with its share of characters. The film centers on the comical Laurel-and-Hardy relationship of a hefty, veteran truck driver, Labuda, and his inexperienced, bungling assistant, Ban, the much-loved village idiot who utters only a few words on rare occasions. The pair constitute a whole whose halves come together every morning on their walk to work. As a ritual, Labuda leaves his house first, walks a way down the dirt road, and gives a whistle for Ban. Ban comes along and, without even a "good mor...