Lunacy

Name: Lunacy
Genre: Horror
Released: August 9, 2006
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 63

2006

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: August 9, 2006

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)

Director: Jan Svankmajer

Genre(s): Horror

Runtime: 118 min

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Salon - Andrew O'Hehir

One of the best films of the year. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine - Ken Fox

Svankmajer has crafted his finest live-action feature to date. Read full review

Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Bill White

The film is imaginative but ugly, with bodily functions an unending source for grotesque and revolting imagery. Read full review

Chicago Tribune - Michael Phillips

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. Read full review

Chicago Reader - J.R. Jones

Weird anachronisms (cars, telephones, home computers) contribute to the craziness, but despite the copious imagination on display, this is a fairly long haul. Read full review

Village Voice - J. Hoberman

Lunacy is dark, scary, and yucky--even by the Czech animator's own standards. Read full review

Variety - Jay Weissberg

More moving animal parts and less human pontificating would make a stronger case for a tale already rich in imagery. Another drawback is Liska, too one-dimensional to stand against Triska's overpowering performance. Read full review

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beeanadou

Jul 13, 2018

Some scenes are quite grotesque and disturbing, but this surely is one of the best of Jan Švankmajer.

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Joshc

Apr 8, 2008

Lunacy is Svankmajer's most political work

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