As its title attests "Conspirators of Pleasure" is a film about sex but it's also a Jan Svankmajer film which means that any prurience is going to be tempered with a good deal of surrealism and a certain amount of bizarre comedy. It's also full of the kind of people who, while turned on themselves by the prospect of anything sexual happening to them, are unlikely to turn you on. I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder but Svankmajer goes out of his way to fill the screen with people who, at best, might be described as 'unprepossessing'. It's also a virtually silent picture in that, while there is music and sound effects, there is no dialogue, not that it's needed, and it's virtually plot less as it follows a group of disparate, (desperate?), characters through a series of weird rituals, all of which appear to be sexual in one way or another. Again it's the animated sequences that come off best though in the overall scheme of things I wouldn't say this is one of Svankmajer's finer films. On the plus side, it's certainly not dull and it's quite short.
Review of Conspirators of Pleasure
