Luxor Books loses 200 million CZK, plans comeback
Like most industries, the book business is fighting for its life after nearly a year of coronavirus restrictions. Luxor, the biggest bookstore chain in the Czech Republic, has so far recorded 200 million CZK in losses and continues to face never-ending lockdowns that won’t allow people in their stores. The restrictions have allowed people to order books online and pick them up in person, but that doesn’t particularly bode well when 70% of Luxor’s customers prefer to buy books in person. In an interview with Aktualne.cz, František Mala, head of Luxor’s parent company Euromedia, laid out Luxor’s current situation with the pandemic and how it plans to survive. “It’s not ideal, but I have to adapt…” “It all depends on
Czech Film Review: Honeymoon (Líbánky)
Can someone’s dark secrets ever stay truly buried? That’s the question at the heart of Honeymoon, a dark psychological thriller where director Jan Hřebejk seems to takes a few cues from Lars von Trier in studied, beautifully-acted, elegantly-shot misanthropy. Much like von Trier’s Melancholia from a few years earlier, Honeymoon centres around a wedding party and a bride with her own past psychological issues. Then, much like the former film’s titular planet that ruins festivities by colliding with Earth, a wedding crasher who knows too many inconvenient secrets threatens to destroy the marriage before the ink is dry on the certificate. We meet Tereza (Anna Geislerová) and Radim (Stanislav Majer), an attractive couple on their big day, taking their vows
