Lunacy

Slithering, severed tongues mount each other in an erotic clinch. Perambulatory brains seek refuge in the cranium of an animal skull while swarms of rolling eyeballs pop into its empty sockets. Marionettes made of meat dance to the sounds of a carnival hurdy-gurdy, and raw something pulsates from the side wound of a wooden Christ. In LUNACY Czech master animator Jan Svankmajer has crafted his finest live-action feature to date; punctuated by such charnel-house interludes, it's a surrealist mini-manifesto that serves as a remarkably clear-cut statement of purpose inspired by the nightmarish works of Edgar Allan Poe, the Marquis de Sade and the gristle of his ow...