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Lunacy

2005 · 1h 57m · Not Rated Comedy, Horror
Directed by Jan Švankmajer

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Overview

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 might have predicted.

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65%
Tomatometer
Rotten

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

Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times
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
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
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
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

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