University of Miami

Some Secrets ? Czechoslovakia ? 2002 ? Miami Premiere ? 100 min. Directed by: Alice Nellis A dark and absurd road-movie comedy in which Grandmother fulfills her dream, Mother stops treating her daughters like kids, the daughters stop treating their husbands like idiots, and father?s ashes get spread all over the country. Setting out to dispose of Grandfather?s ashes in his Slovakian homeland, moments of neat visual humor abound, as when the mother warns granny to mind her eyes when drinking a cocktail with sticks in it. Scenes at the Czech-Slovak border, where the group is refused passage with the ashes, sharply satirize the absurd bureaucracy that has sprung up after the breakup of former Czechoslovakia. The movie also finds room for observations on the darker side of human nature. A prizewinner at San Sebastian, Thessaloniki, Tribeca (NY) the film has been invited to numerous other international festivals.