These ideas are twisted enough that they still hold a certain kind of interest.
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08/24/06
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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
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
The depravity is sometimes entertaining, but the political allegory is simplistic and the plot drags on way too long.
06/23/06
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
At nearly two hours Lunacy becomes repetitive, at first ingeniously and then with a slowly dulling edge. The meat parade ceases to shock.
09/08/06
Top CriticWickedly funny and astonishingly conceived, the film is a nonstop cavalcade of shocks, surprises and enchantments. I loved every minute of it.
09/18/07
...subversive and horrific fun.
08/13/06
The mad and the sane take a leisurely spin around the dance floor in the Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer's feature-length phantasmagoria.
08/09/06
Top CriticThe 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
Lunacy, Svankmajer’s fifth feature film, is the apotheosis of his career, if not his masterpiece.
08/01/06
The movie is an ugly, self-indulgent, pretentious exercise masquerading as artistic and insightful filmmaking.
08/12/06
Lunacy is Svankmajer's most political work--or, rather, the one that most explicitly announces its political ambitions.
07/31/06
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
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
Top CriticYes, the film's undeniable horror lies in the lunacy of filmmaking, not the story.
09/07/06
Will you ever eat prime rib again?
08/11/06
For all the arresting visuals, Svankmajer's morose depiction of the blurry line between madness and sanity is surprisingly pedestrian.
09/29/06
Svankmajer's newest, the awesome Lunacy, is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis de Sade (interesting combination, no?).
08/09/06
Top CriticFor 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
Top CriticWhile 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
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