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
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
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
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 feels programmatic, the repetitive working through of an idea that had me checking my watch.
08/17/06
...subversive and horrific fun.
08/13/06
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 CriticThe movie is an ugly, self-indulgent, pretentious exercise masquerading as artistic and insightful filmmaking.
08/12/06
A bad dream leads to constant conscious nightmares in this wacky, surreal creepshow from over-the-edge Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer.
08/12/06
Will you ever eat prime rib again?
08/11/06
His grim explanation of the film's themes and intent comes in handy, particularly during its most stomach-churning excesses and its overlong second act, but he underestimates its artfulness.
08/10/06
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
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
Svankmajer's newest, the awesome Lunacy, is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis de Sade (interesting combination, no?).
08/09/06
Lunacy, Svankmajer’s fifth feature film, is the apotheosis of his career, if not his masterpiece.
08/01/06
Lunacy is Svankmajer's most political work--or, rather, the one that most explicitly announces its political ambitions.
07/31/06
The depravity is sometimes entertaining, but the political allegory is simplistic and the plot drags on way too long.
06/23/06
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
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
Lunacy 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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