Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

irwinnormal I saw this last year in a beautiful theater downtown where one sits in an easy chair and has a beer. I went with two friends. We went reluctantly, more for the chairs and beer than for any high cinematic experience; picking this movie out of a handful that were playing at the time. I think we were really lucky to see it. I wept a few times, with sadness in the middle, with joy towards the end. Very subtly told, beautifully shot. I really loved it. All the roles were well acted. The final scene was magical. One of a dozen movies that have ever moved me in this way. I'm very appreciative to the filmmakers. Thank you. And since I need a few more words for the ten lines.

mark buffalo "Country teacher" was the first Czech movie to be shown in Morocco during the European cinema week 2010 edition. The motion picture left the majority of the audience in a complete unease and resentment due to its depiction of Homosexual themes not fully accepted by the local culture. But what turned me off, was not the subject but the treatment of what seemed a genuine compelling premise.the first shots introduce us to the protagonist(Petr) getting used to his new life as a teacher of a primary school in a rural region, the cinematography at first captures the lush beautiful landscape in a smooth direct fashion in contrast with the confusion and unease growing inside the title character that obviously hides a terrible secret that prompted him to flee his urban life for a hideout somewhere. But what seemed a build up for a tense deep narration, gets clumsily wasted when a single scene tells us that pets is struggling with his homosexuality and the obtrusive control of his mother that happens to teach in the same high school he left. This revelations seems to the author/director so groundbreaking that he relies for the rest of the motion picture on emotional tear jerker situations and lines never fully explained and lacking a simple coherent narrative line. There was some attempt at graphic and verbal symbolism through some teaching classes about the animal realm and some shots with special attention paid to the background but the whole thing falls short of any valuable addition to the story since forced and not heartily composed.There's also the uneven insertions of the soundtrack composed solely of modern classical vocal solos that pops up out of nowhere and fades unnoticed.What really appalled me to finish with was the everybody-understands -forgives-themselves and everybody else ending. No denouement of the events led to what seemed a forced finale witch sole purpose was to transform the tortured souls into free forgiving new born persons that collaborate on a last symbol-loaded scene: the birth giving of a calf unwisely inserted into the narration but beautifully shot.Overall a weak entry of the eastern European author cinema, that needs more coherent narration if it wants to win over a reluctant Moroccan audience uneasy with queer cinema to begin with!

jfoniok In the film one can find some very good acting, especially by the main actors.All the rest is a bit sad. The plot makes little sense. Obviously written and filmed by people who have no idea what life in the country is like. (And loved by cinema goers who have no idea what country life is like.) At too many points you just wonder, "why is this happening?" but never get an answer. The psychology of the characters is rather weak. On the whole you are left with the feeling that things are somehow random... The music does not fit. Etc. Certainly not a film I'd like to see again, and not the best current Czech cinematography can offer.

Albrecht Gaub Atmospheric and likable and engaging. Non-standard characters and a rural environment strangely reminiscent of my childhood in 1970s West Germany. Are there still houses in the Czech Republic that have no indoor plumbing? The film makes us believe so. A few post- modernist monikers, such as cellphones, computers, and the PET bottle from which the peasant woman drinks her home-made cider cannot prevent the bad guy's convertible from looking just outlandish, like a UFO on wheels. And yet there is one thing about the plot that worries me. What if the teacher were straight and the student he molested were a female? Would it still be acceptable by the (double) standards of 21st-century political correctness if the victim's mother insisted on her daughter to forgive the molester? I doubt it and imagine a public outcry not only from the feminist side. The gay rapist may be forgiven, the straight one may not. We have come a long way. The Czechs even more so.