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Lunacy (2006)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:22
Rotten:11
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: A Svankmajer movie is not for everyone, but he displays his usual creative flair for surreal imagery.
Theatrical Release:Aug 9, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: The latest provocation from surrealist master Jan Svankmajer (LITTLE OTIK) is loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allen Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. In... [More]
Starring: Jan Triska, Ana Geislerová, Jaroslav Dusek, Jiri Krytinar
Director: Jan Svankmajer
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Reviews for Lunacy
Svankmajer's fifth and most accessible feature to date... Lunacy is exactly what it's called, raucously inventive and completely out of its mind.
04/27/06
By turns absurdly funny, disturbingly dissolute, unnervingly claustrophobic, and caustically misanthropic, Lunacy offers viewers the sort of punishing pleasures that so many of its characters seem, in their different ways, to seek.
06/12/07
The definition of liberation as the act of being delivered from the hands of one lunatic into the hands of another who is equally mad remains universal in its political and social applications.
10/12/06
Only a master filmmaker could make such a fantastically sustained voyage into the Land of Questioning Reality, God and Propriety, and everything else we try to organize our sensibilities around.
08/18/06
Wickedly funny and astonishingly conceived, the film is a nonstop cavalcade of shocks, surprises and enchantments. I loved every minute of it.
09/18/07
Lunacy is Svankmajer's most political work--or, rather, the one that most explicitly announces its political ambitions.
07/31/06
Lunacy lacks the teeth to be truly audacious. Yet its leisurely pacing and silly send-ups of psychosexual perversions make it an amusing enough gothic comedy.
08/18/06
Lunacy is billed as a horror film, 'with all the degeneracy of the genre,' but refuses simple straight jacketing.
04/19/06
This is one of those deliriously unhinged movies that looks, feels and sounds genuinely insane, for all the right artistic reasons.
10/13/06
These ideas are twisted enough that they still hold a certain kind of interest.
08/24/06
The lunatics have taken over the asylum: It's an old metaphor but one that achieves a certain poignancy in Svankmajer's hands.
08/09/06
...subversive and horrific fun.
08/13/06
Lunacy, Svankmajer’s fifth feature film, is the apotheosis of his career, if not his masterpiece.
08/01/06
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03/17/07
For all its visual surprises and visceral shocks, Lunacy is still the kind of film that is easier to admire than it is to actually like.
08/18/06
While Lunacy leaves you with the impression that Svankmajer is more expressive with cutlets than he is with his atypically human-dominated dreamscape, some of the images are doozies.
10/26/06
Top CriticSvankmajer continues to push at the boundaries of convention, juxtaposing blasphemy and torture while mocking the possibility of transcendence.
02/22/07
Fans of movies about inmates who take over an asylum -- King of Hearts and Marat/Sade are prime examples -- will be amused by this surrealistic take on the subject punctuated by animated interludes featuring, of all things, dancing meat.
08/25/06
Top CriticA bad dream leads to constant conscious nightmares in this wacky, surreal creepshow from over-the-edge Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer.
08/12/06
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