Lunacy (2005) Sílení
Lunacy (2005)
DVDRip | MKV | 720x576 | x264 @ 2000 Kbps | 121 min | 1,85 Gb
Audio: Čeština Vorbis 5.1 @ 257 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Art-house, Drama, Horror
DVDRip | MKV | 720x576 | x264 @ 2000 Kbps | 121 min | 1,85 Gb
Audio: Čeština Vorbis 5.1 @ 257 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Art-house, Drama, Horror
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Writers: Edgar Allan Poe (story), Marquis de Sade (story)
Stars: Jan Tríska, Pavel Liska, Anna Geislerová
A horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum - absolute freedom versus control and punishment - within the context of a world that combines the worst of both. Jean Berlot, a young man subject to a nightmare of being forced into a straitjacket by two orderlies, is befriended by a marquis. At the marquis's estate, Jean witnesses a black Mass, buries someone alive, and is invited to try preventive therapy. He's willing to enter a sanatorium because he believes he can rescue a young woman from there who has told him that the real director and staff of the clinic are locked in the basement. Jean conspires with her to set them free: the horrors have only begun.
IMDB - 8 wins
I recently saw this film at the Jeonju film festival in Korea. It was by far the best film I saw all weekend. Selini is like a combination of Godard, Herzog and classic Czech animation- the kind of committed and convincing political film making that is increasingly rare these days. In his introduction Svankmajer compares the excesses of extreme reactionary and liberal regimes and argues that we currentlycombine the worst of both worlds in encouraging people to do whatever they want whilst relying on punishment and fear to keep them under control. The plot (based on an Edgar Allen Poe short story) is simple- an innocent traveller bears witness to the lunatics taking over the asylum. But the nightmarish atmosphere of confusion and fear, enhanced by gruesome stop motion animation between scenes, is both compelling, disturbing and extremely effective in communicating the directors ideas. The acting is committed and convincing and the story has, like the decline into madness, a chilling inevitability about it. The film uses this simple story to explore more challenging philosophical concepts. You don't have to be a fan of art-house cinema to understand and enjoy this exciting movie.
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Lunacy (2005) Sílení
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