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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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06/05/07
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
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06/02/07
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
A horse-drawn carriage crossing an expressway overpass promises a more subversive ride than Svankmajer delivers.
10/27/06
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
Weird ideas piled onto one another can work (as anyone who has tried to explain what Les triplettes de Belville is all about will know), but what is missing here is a method to the madness.
04/19/06
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 feels programmatic, the repetitive working through of an idea that had me checking my watch.
08/17/06
Will you ever eat prime rib again?
08/11/06
The movie is an ugly, self-indulgent, pretentious exercise masquerading as artistic and insightful filmmaking.
08/12/06
Connoisseurs of the disgustingly visceral will find Jan Svankmajer hardly mellowed at 72. Lunacy is dark, scary, and yucky -- even by the Czech animator's own standards.
08/12/06
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