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Lunacy

Original title: Sílení
  • 20052005
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 58m
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7.2/10
3.8K
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Lunacy (2005)
AnimationComedyDrama
A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sin... Read allA man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've predicted.A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've predicted.
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7.2/10
3.8K
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    • Jan Svankmajer
    • Edgar Allan Poe(story)
    • Marquis de Sade(story)
    • Jan Svankmajer
  • Stars
    • Jan Tríska
    • Pavel Liska
    • Anna Geislerová
    • Jan Svankmajer
    • Edgar Allan Poe(story)
    • Marquis de Sade(story)
    • Jan Svankmajer
  • Stars
    • Jan Tríska
    • Pavel Liska
    • Anna Geislerová
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    • 24User reviews
    • 54Critic reviews
    • 63Metascore
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    Pavel Liska in Lunacy (2005)
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    Anna Geislerová and Martin Huba in Lunacy (2005)
    Pavel Liska in Lunacy (2005)
    Anna Geislerová and Pavel Liska in Lunacy (2005)
    Stano Danciak and Jan Tríska in Lunacy (2005)
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    Jan Tríska
    Jan Tríska
    • Marquis
    Pavel Liska
    Pavel Liska
    • Jean Berlot
    Anna Geislerová
    Anna Geislerová
    • Charlota
    Martin Huba
    Martin Huba
    • Dr. Coulmiere
    Jaroslav Dusek
    Jaroslav Dusek
    • Dr. Murlloppe
    Pavel Nový
    Pavel Nový
    • Servant Dominik
    Stano Danciak
    • Innkeeper
    Jirí Krytinár
    Jirí Krytinár
    • Reciting Madman
    Katerina Ruzicková
    • Asylum inmate
    Iva Littmanová
    • Asylum inmate
    Katerina Valachová
    • Asylum inmate
    Josef Kaspar
    • Insane erotomaniac
    Miroslav Navrátil
    • Dream warden
    Jirí Maria Sieber
    • Dream warden
    Ctirad Götz
    Ctirad Götz
    • Ostler
    Milan David
    • Naked madman…
    Michael Hoffbauer
    • Naked madman
    Karel Herman
    • Feeble-minded warden
      • Jan Svankmajer
      • Edgar Allan Poe(story)
      • Marquis de Sade(story)
      • Jan Svankmajer
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      The official Czech submission to the 2007 Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
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    A lot of viewers seem to praise Svankmajer for the lunacy of his visual imagination, for the grotesque insides he's willing to lay out. I admit there is stuff worth taking from him, notions I would be interested to engage. But a lot of what he does is so blunt that I mostly want to take a step back, he can be embarrassing to watch, for example here the petulant tirade against god; what kind of god creates only in order to destroy, why doesn't he spare us the pain? Well, precisely the god, meant broadly, the universe that creates again. How selfish, how religiously salvational, exactly the thing he rants against, to think it was all going to last forever!

    He favors stark allegories, and this is one of the least subtle he has delivered: distinctions between tyranny and freedom as the ways to govern the world madhouse. We see one, then the other, always with an eye on the world at large, or so it goes.

    There is one interesting bit in all this, a clever staging; a tableaux vivant that recreates Delacroix's 'Liberty', where inmates who are ostensibly free to be as creatively mad as they want are marshaled into position as living props. During the stageshow later, one of them actually attacks in a fit of lust the woman portraying liberty. Of course unbound freedom can spawn its own despots, we're meant to take this lesson ambiguously.

    It's all wrapped in Poe; 'Premature Burial' as backstory attached to de Sade, a pendulum shot, the main thrust is from 'Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether'. And there is an experimental short woven through the film, typical Svankmajer stuff that he does best about animated slabs of meat trying to enter the narrative, or substituting for insights that can't be articulated there.

    But it's never quite as erudite as it would like to be. The final image is unremittingly blunt; modern man as another slab of meat in a long row, a prepackaged exhibit suffocating in his modern cellophane wrap.

    I suggest you watch instead The Hourglass Sanatorium, another Eastern European film about a damaged man mingling with madness in an effort to restore in him parts missing - the quest in both is for subconscious images of a parent. But that film unswathed in a dozen different layers, offering on the whole the purely symbolic construct of a graven image, but as a space of metaphysical contemplation on the placement of the soul in the cosmic grind. Here, it's one allegory broken out in so many authoritarian asides.
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      • November 17, 2005 (Czech Republic)
      • Czech Republic
      • Slovakia
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      • Athanor
      • C-Ga Film
      • Ceská Televize
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    • 1 hour 58 minutes
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      • Dolby Digital

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