A New New Me

Plot:
Kinga has her own strategies to make it for any given week. Every day of the week belongs to another Kinga. On Mondays, Kinga-A tries to live a very standard life and to take care of business. On Tuesdays, Kinga-B gets through purely with sarcasm. On Wednesdays, Kinga-C freelances as a very special kind of tourist guide. On Thursdays, Kinga-D’s infinite patience gets her most of the annoying appointments and a lot of baths. On Fridays, Kinga-E’s perfume obsession keeps her busy. On Saturdays, Kinga-F likes to party. And finally, on Sundays, Kinga-G mostly rests. But when Kinga-A finds a man tied up in her pantry on Monday evening, it is the start of a very strange week for everybody.

A New New Me is a comedy that did have me show more laughing, but also left me a little unsatisfied. It is full of wonderfully strange ideas but it never really came together for me.

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I spent an hour on this torrent of surrealistic stream-of-consciousness gibberish before deciding that it was unlikely to pass the Nancy Pearl Test and aborted it. It concerns itself with the disorganized musings of a couple of functionaries in a Prague office; other than that I couldn't say what it's about. There are occasional moments of eloquence within the babble, surely not enough of a draw to warrant a week or two on the book.