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set in the United States in the 1960s. It is about a Czech immigrant, Selma Ježková, who struggles with poverty and a degenerative eye condition that slowly is making her blind. As Selma's life turns increasingly bleak, she enjoys
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community and marries a non-religious and foreign oil-rig worker. When her husband is seriously injured in a workplace accident, he urges her to seek out other men as sexual partners. Bess complies, thinking it will improve his condition. The film premiered on 18 May 1996 at the
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that the act of naming them the "Golden Heart trilogy" was a greater provocation than any of the content in the films. He traced their themes through the "banal and sentimental" picture book that was their direct inspiration to a recurring theme in
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