Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

The story

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.

• #whimsical
• #puberty
• #supernatural
• #vampire
• #czech new wave
• #based on novel or book
• #religion
• #allegory
• #gloomy
• #bohemians
• #polecat
• #sexual awakening