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Lunacy

Lunacy (2005)

  • 67% of critics liked it
    (33 reviews)

  • 81% of users liked it
    (3,557 ratings)

A man who fears he's edging into madness gets a fresh perspective on what insanity really means in this frantic, visually inventive black comedy from Czech auteur Jan Svankmajer. Jean (Pavel Liska) is a deeply troubled man who has been haunted by violent hallucinations since the death of his… More

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Genres
Documentary, Drama, Horror, Art House & International, Special Interest
In Theaters
May 1, 2006 Wide
On DVD
Feb 20, 2007
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Critic Reviews

  • Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times

    A horse-drawn carriage crossing an expressway overpass promises a more subversive ride than Svankmajer delivers.

  • Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

    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.

  • Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times

    This is one of those deliriously unhinged movies that looks, feels and sounds genuinely insane, for all the right artistic reasons.

  • Ty Burr, Boston Globe

    At nearly two hours Lunacy becomes repetitive, at first ingeniously and then with a slowly dulling edge. The meat parade ceases to shock.

  • Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle

    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.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Greg S


    A mentally unstable man meets a modern day Marquis de Sade who holds blasphemous rituals in his basement and convinces his guest to commit himself to an insane asylum run by the inmates. In between scenes we see clips of steaks and disembodied tongues slithering about. It's… More

  • vieras e


    If you're not familiar with Svankmajer's unique style of finding the endearing in the disgusting, nor grown accustomed to his meat puppets or skeletal animals, you might find this movie somewhat aversive at first - hopefully only to discover its brilliance in the end.

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