MUCHA: IT'S FUCKED UP IN MY HEAD

synopsis

Nikola Mucha plays, cares, bitches and sometimes just can’t go on. Markéta Sehnalová spent six years by her side. She portrays the singer-songwriter, who turns frustration into self-mocking femipunk songs about relationships, female rage and everyday fuck-ups, also as an exhausted mother. The restless camera takes us from concerts into the backstage world, where bravado gives way to doubts about whether you can be a good parent and still want something for yourself. With the same fierce energy as in Mucha’s live shows, this fragmentary portrait wastes no time on explanations or sentimentality, letting anger, laughs and moments when there is nothing to celebrate exist side by side.

“For six years, Markéta Riky Sehnalová chased me around with a camera, hustled on our stages, let me yell at her, drove my arse around, babysat the babies, clocked up thousands of kilometres and, above all, had to keep convincing me it would turn out alright.” — Nikola Mucha

film details

director:	Markéta Sehnalová
producer:	Michal Kráčmer, Veronika Kührová, Dušan Mulíček
script:	Markéta Sehnalová
photography:	Marek Brožek, Marcela Mencelová
editing:	Michal Novák
music:	Nikola Mucha
sound design:	Pavel Matyáš