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Conspirators of Pleasure (1997)

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Average Rating: 8.3/10
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Release Date: Aug 22, 1997 Wide

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A life-action feature, black comedy about a group of loosely connected, ordinary people who feverishly engage in obsessive rituals: Mr Peony fashions a papier-mache rooster''s head and bat wings made of umbrellas; his landlady inflicts punishment on a life-size rag doll''s effigy of him; the newspaper seller reinvents his TV as an erotic toy; the postal worker turns loaves of bread into hundreds of bullet-size bread balls; and the TV newscaster keeps two live carp in a tank--to suck her toes.

Unrated, 1 hr. 23 min.

Animation, Art House & International, Comedy

Directed By: Jan Svankmajer

Written By: Jan Svankmajer

In Theaters: Aug 22, 1997 Wide

On DVD: Feb 22, 2000

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The film's handmade look fits the material, since it's about desires too personal to be mass-produced.

March 5, 2002 Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com

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Jeremy Heilman

MovieMartyr.com

Agreeably witty and bizarre, but patience is required to sustain interest in its intricately oddball, non-verbalized story for nearly an hour-and-a-half.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Film Journal International

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Renfreu Neff

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Svankmajer is more interested in detailing than developing & the film feels like a stretched short movie but overall interesting & fun, I've yet to see Faust & Lunacy but Little Otik is my favourite Svankmajer so far

August 29, 2009

Arash Xak

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This movie probably deserves a higher rating, but shit: this is not for me.It's pretty obscene in a harmless way, but come to think of it -sick as it is- there are probably people walking this earth getting of on stuff like this. I mean hey, as long as there are people that pay money for used socks and underwear (this

October 11, 2008