‘Only Beautiful Things to Look at’ Review: An Engaging but Subdued Portrait of State-Sanctioned Cruelty0

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• July 11, 2026

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