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Jan Svankmajer (writer)
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15 August 1997 (USA)
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Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy...
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Petr Meissel | ... | Mr. Pivoine | |
| Gabriela Wilhelmová | ... | Mrs. Loubalova | |
| Barbora Hrzánová | ... | Postmistress | |
| Anna Wetlinská | ... | Mrs. Beltinska | |
| Jirí Lábus | ... | Newspaper Vendor | |
| Pavel Nový | ... | Mr. Beltinski | |
| Frantisek Polata | |||
| Eva Vidimská | |||
| Ervín Tomendál | |||
| Josef Chodora | |||
| Marie Zemanová | |||
| Jean-Daniel | |||
| Martin Kublák | |||
| Eva Vosahlíková | |||
| Martin Radimecký |
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Conspirators of Pleasure (USA)
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Greece:75 min | USA:85 min
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Slave/Master -- Sacher Masoch -- Sade, Marquis de -- SvankMajer. All S&M - purely by coincidence?
The liner notes and end credits of Conspirators of Pleasure list Max Ernst, Sacher Masoch, Marquis de Sade and Luis Buñuel as inspirations and or sources, planting Svankmajer's film firmly on the map of surrealist experimentation and with little doubt, denoting it as social and political commentary. Sexuality is employed to both present and represent socio-political disorders affected by the taut political tensions and trying social circumstances in everyday Eastern Europe.
Power relations between two tenants take the form of S&M, and repressed sexuality emerge in multifarious perverse ways in a city constantly spying on its citizens, where moments of privacy have to be enacted in strict interiors like closets and the imagination for fear of discovery and public shaming. Thrift stores where everyday items are salvaged turn out to be the sites providing raw materials for building and enacting sexual fantasies.
In Conspirators of Pleasure, sexual perversion and fetishes come across as symptomatic of a larger social and political neurosis. Yet, the end result of a film built on such an idea doesn't come across as staid, but superbly entertaining and wry, helped in no small part by the supremely brilliant realization by Svankmajer.
Conspirators of Pleasure is a winner and a must-watch.