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Lunacy
Comedy, Horror - 2005
Lunacy
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7.3
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Loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. In 19th century France a young man is plagued by nightmares in which he is dragged off to a madhouse. On the journey back from his mother’s funeral he is invited by a Marquis he meets at lunch to spend the night in his castle. There he witnesses a blasphemous orgy and a ‘therapeutic’ funeral. He tries to flee but is taken to a lunatic asylum where the patients have complete freedom and the staff are locked up behind bars.
Director:
,
Jan Švankmajer
Cast:
,
Jan Tříska
,
Martin Huba
,
Anna Geislerová
,
Pavel Liška
,
Jaroslav Dušek
,
Karel Heřman

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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
118 min
Release date:
17 Nov 2005
Country:
CZ, SK
Languages:
Czech
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
8 wins & 7 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
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,
San Francisco Chronicle,
25 Aug 2006
rotten:
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,
Boston Globe,
8 Sep 2006
fresh:
This is one of those deliriously unhinged movies that looks, feels and sounds genuinely insane, for all the right artistic reasons.
– Jeff Shannon,
Seattle Times,
13 Oct 2006
fresh:
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,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Oct 2006
rotten:
A horse-drawn carriage crossing an expressway overpass promises a more subversive ride than Svankmajer delivers.
– Bill Stamets,
Chicago Sun-Times,
27 Oct 2006
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