I Want You If You Dare

Dagmar Smržová / Czech Republic / 2019 / World Premiere / 84 min.

synopsis

Single mother Martina raised twin girls, one of whom was born blind and the other with polio, leaving her disabled. Both children are now adults, and disabled Jana would love to leave her mother and live on her own in institutional living. And she would also like to experience sex, perhaps with a paid assistant. The documentary offers a brutally unsentimental view into the life of an impoverished rural family with two permanently disabled members. It delicately captures both everyday and exceptional situations, focusing mainly on the personal, emotional and relationship problems between the protagonists.

„The harder the fates I make films about, the more I appreciate when my heroes can laugh at them. And when I can make the audience laugh well, I am happy.” D. Smržová

biography

The film’s name links it with Smržová’s (1966) earlier documentary Love Me If You Can (2016) about the sexuality of the disabled. The filmmaker explores disabled people and their families in other films such as Saving Edwards (2010) and The Hardest Choice (2010). She also directed the series GEN, Eye and The 13th Chamber as well as the documentary film War in the Memory of Women (2005).