Lunacy (DVD)
The latest provocation from surrealist master Jan Svankmajer (Alice, Little Otik) deliriously combines live action, stop-motion animation, kinky sex, Euro-trash violence and horror, black comedy, and lots of frisky meat puppets. In nineteenth-century rural France, a young man named Jean Berlot becomes caught up in the nightmarish world of a mysterious, decadent Marquis (Jan Triska, The People vs. Larry Flynt): orgiastic black masses, “therapeutic” funerals and an asylum with a smorgasbord of macabre “treatments” and tarred-and-feathered doctors. Lunacy is loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade.
- 16:9 anamorphic transfer, formatted for widescreen televisions
- “The Making of Lunacy”
- Behind-the-scenes photos and illustrated “treatment” cards
- Theatrical trailer
- Jan Svankmajer print interview
- Optional English subtitles
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