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Lunacy (2006)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:6
Rotten:4
Average Rating:5.9/10
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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03/17/07
Top CriticA horse-drawn carriage crossing an expressway overpass promises a more subversive ride than Svankmajer delivers.
10/27/06
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
Top CriticAt 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 CriticFans 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 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 CriticConnoisseurs 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 CriticA bad dream leads to constant conscious nightmares in this wacky, surreal creepshow from over-the-edge Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer.
08/12/06
Top CriticThe 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 CriticSvankmajer's newest, the awesome Lunacy, is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis de Sade (interesting combination, no?).
08/09/06
Top CriticLunacy is billed as a horror film, 'with all the degeneracy of the genre,' but refuses simple straight jacketing.
04/19/06
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