The fashions and furnishings of Czechoslovakia in the 1980s (the height of the state’s racist program to repress the Roma population through forced sterilization) are painstakingly evoked in Slovak filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský’s “Only Beautiful Things to Look At.” But the film’s attractive but strangely bloodless presentation gives the impression of a period drama set much
Slovak director Ivan Ostrochovský is planning an American remake of “Only Beautiful Things to Look At.” Her latest drama, premiering at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, is set in the 1980s and follows a doctor (Aňa Geislerová) who begins to question the forced sterilization of Romani women in the former Czechoslovakia. “This was happening all
