The Idiot Returns [Rooftop Moviehouse]

dir. Saša Gideon / 1999 / comedy, drama / Czechia, Germany / Czech with English subtitles / 100 minutes

František has never experienced anything real or meaningful. He has spent his adult life behind the walls of an institution, so now everything feels like a first impression. He returns to the only people he can call family—though they had no idea he even existed. They have their own lives and relationships—so tangled and complicated that František gets caught in them like a fly in a web. He becomes entangled in romantic, sibling, and parental conflicts. He finds himself in awkward, comical, and suffocating situations. He witnesses relationship shake-ups, romantic collisions, and emotional explosions among his loved ones. He feels for everyone, and everything touches him deeply. He understands them better than they understand themselves. But only someone who understands him can help him truly return.

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