Forget CRASH: David Cronenberg's fevered fender-benders have nothing on the sexual fetishists of Czech animator Jan Svankmajer's imaginative and singularly bizarre live-action feature. Set in Prague, Svankmajer's film follows the lives of six men and women as
they set about their daily lives -- lives devoted to the single-minded pursuit of peculiar sexual kinks. One man dons a painstakingly crafted rooster head and wings, flapping his arms while terrorizing an effigy of his neighbor with a boulder. The neighbor, meanwhile, dresses as a dominatrix and
bats around an effigy of
him. A postal worker inhales grape-sized balls of bread, all secretly rolled while m...
Released:
1996
Rated:
NR
Length:
83 mins