| Plot: | This 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.
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| Overview: | This 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.
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