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Lunacy (2005). This Czech flick by Jan Svankmajer has it all: it's dark, blasphemous, disturbing, funny, and philosophic. This is Jan's notion of a horror film, but it is much more than just that. Blending elements of Poe and Sade, Jan uses them to put together a wonderful study of the treatment of insanity and then uses it to make a statement about society itself. His use of stop motion animation here brilliantly reveals the insanity that comes seeping out of the woodwork after each ludicrous scene. The acting was great, though some may find the "looking into the camera" scenes a little weird. With great direction, wonderful camera work, wild animation (tongues crawling in and out of beer glasses, sans owners), disturbing imagery (loved the view from outside of the horse buggy), like i said, this one has it all. Ashe.
derek
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