An elderly bearded man leans in nose-to-nose with a brown-and-white cow in a rural farmyard, both faces covered in flies, with a rustic wooden fence and green trees in the background.

Better Go Mad In The Wild

Subtitled, Foreign language

About Better Go Mad In The Wild

In a farmstead deep in the Šumavan Mountains, situated near Czechia’s western borders with Austria and Germany, live identical twins František and Ondřej Klišík. Now in their sixties, the brothers exist in bucolic bliss: drinking, bickering, swimming in glacial lakes and wandering – sometimes in the nude – through nearby forests. On other occasions, they commune with the animals in their midst.

Informed by the eponymous book by journalist Aleš Palán, Better Go Mad in the Wild is a dreamy and poetic glimpse into a life of wilful seclusion. Produced over a five-year period, during which director Miro Remo and his crew spent 60 days with the twins, it transports viewers to a world both elemental and unmoored from modern society. It’s a stunning work propelled by emotion and tone, joining František and Ondřej as they muse on mortality, their misadventures and the dreams keeping their maverick ways alive.
 

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MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.

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