Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970), directed by Jaromil Jireš and based on Vítězslav Nezval’s novel, is a cornerstone of the Czechoslovak New Wave that reinterprets a coming-of-age story as a surrealist gothic fairy tale [11, 18, 25, 30]. The film centers on a 13-year-old girl traversing a dreamlike landscape of puberty, where vampiric figures symbolize the predation of youth and political corruption during the Soviet occupation [1, 5, 17, 24]. Read a critical review of the film at 366 Weird Movies .