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  • Summary: The latest provocation from surrealist master Jan Svankmajer is based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. Lunacy combines live action and stop-motion, sex and violence, grand guignol terror and gallows humor, and a lot of animated meat. (Zeitgeist Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 9 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 16
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  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    90
    One of the best films of the year.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    88
    Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis de Sade (interesting combination, no?).
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    60
    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.

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  1. Joshc
    7
    Lunacy is Svankmajer's most political work—or, rather, the one that most explicitly announces its political ambitions. By film's end, amidst a gonzo flurry of chicken feathers, sadomasochistic violence, and infectious laughter, a blue-balled Jean is caught between a rock and a hard place, a nut and a bigger nut—a standstill reflective of our current state of affairs. This is a constantly buzzing tinker-toy of sensualist shocks and homegrown invention, but Svankmajer makes the mistake of deconstructing the film for us during an introductory onscreen address and, then, saddling characters with explanatory rhetoric about the degradation of authority and the body's drive for dominance. The film's great irony is that its hulking animal tongues conspire for our pleasure while Svankmajer's own loose lingua acts as a buzzkill.… Expand
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