Lunacy (2006)
Movie Info
Cast
as Jean Berlot
as The Marquis
as Charlota
as Dr. Murlloppe
as Dr. Coulmiere
as Dominik
as Inkeeper
as Eloquent Inmate
as Asylum Inmate
as Asylum Inmate
as Asylum Inmate
as Erotomaniac Inmate
as Cast Member
as Cast Member
as Cast Member
as Houseman
as Homeless Man, Houseman
as Houseman
as Houseman
as Art Therapist
as Doctor
as Doctor
as Doctor
as Doctor
as Inmate on Trolley
as Miss Rossetová
as Homeless Man
as Homeless Man
as Homeless Man
as Corpse
as The Goat
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Critic Reviews for Lunacy
All Critics (34) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (12) | DVD (1)
A horse-drawn carriage crossing an expressway overpass promises a more subversive ride than Svankmajer delivers.
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.
This is one of those deliriously unhinged movies that looks, feels and sounds genuinely insane, for all the right artistic reasons.
At nearly two hours Lunacy becomes repetitive, at first ingeniously and then with a slowly dulling edge. The meat parade ceases to shock.
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.
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.
Audience Reviews for Lunacy
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.
Super Reviewer
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