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A Svankmajer movie is not for everyone, but he displays his usual creative flair for surreal imagery.
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A horse-drawn carriage crossing an expressway overpass promises a more subversive ride than Svankmajer delivers. Oct 27, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
A horse-drawn carriage crossing an expressway overpass promises a more subversive ride than Svankmajer delivers.
Bill Stamets
While 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. Oct 26, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4
While 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.
Michael Phillips
This is one of those deliriously unhinged movies that looks, feels and sounds genuinely insane, for all the right artistic reasons. Oct 13, 2006 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
This is one of those deliriously unhinged movies that looks, feels and sounds genuinely insane, for all the right artistic reasons.
Jeff Shannon
At nearly two hours Lunacy becomes repetitive, at first ingeniously and then with a slowly dulling edge. The meat parade ceases to shock. Sep 8, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
At nearly two hours Lunacy becomes repetitive, at first ingeniously and then with a slowly dulling edge. The meat parade ceases to shock.
Ty Burr
Fans 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. Aug 25, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Fans 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.
Ruthe Stein
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. Aug 18, 2006 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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.
Mark Olsen
Wickedly funny and astonishingly conceived, the film is a nonstop cavalcade of shocks, surprises and enchantments. I loved every minute of it. Sep 18, 2007 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
Wickedly funny and astonishingly conceived, the film is a nonstop cavalcade of shocks, surprises and enchantments. I loved every minute of it.
Christopher Campbell
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. Jun 12, 2007 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
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.
Anton Bitel
As pure cinema, there's no denying the power of Lunacy, although mostly that power can best be described as, well, sadistic. Apr 16, 2007 | Full Review…
As pure cinema, there's no denying the power of Lunacy, although mostly that power can best be described as, well, sadistic.
Ken Eisner
Svankmajer continues to push at the boundaries of convention, juxtaposing blasphemy and torture while mocking the possibility of transcendence. Feb 22, 2007 | Full Review…
Svankmajer continues to push at the boundaries of convention, juxtaposing blasphemy and torture while mocking the possibility of transcendence.
Rex Roberts
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. Oct 12, 2006 | Rating: B | Full Review…
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.
Bill White
For all the arresting visuals, Svankmajer's morose depiction of the blurry line between madness and sanity is surprisingly pedestrian. Sep 29, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4
For all the arresting visuals, Svankmajer's morose depiction of the blurry line between madness and sanity is surprisingly pedestrian.
Sean P. Means
A mentally unstable man meets a modern day Marquis de Sade who holds blasphemous rituals in his basement and convinces his guest to commit himself to an insane asylum run by the inmates. In between scenes we see clips of steaks and disembodied tongues slithering about. It's bizarre, but not the strangest from surrealist animator Svankmejer; if you squint hard, it even looks like an ordinary horror movie. The tag line says it best: "Edgar Allen Poe + the Marquis de Sade + Jan Svankmejer = Lunacy."
Super Reviewer
If you're not familiar with Svankmajer's unique style of finding the endearing in the disgusting, nor grown accustomed to his meat puppets or skeletal animals, you might find this movie somewhat aversive at first - hopefully only to discover its brilliance in the end.
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