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Conspirators of Pleasure

Spiklenci slasti (Conspirators of Pleasure)

1996

Jan Švankmajer

Animation, Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová ...

6.9

809

Animation. Comedy. Fantasy. Drama Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to massage and masturbate him. One of his customers makes an elaborate chicken costume for a voodoo-like scene with a doll resembling his plump neighbor. She, in turn, has a doll that resembles him, ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Svankmajer's humour is as black, sly and subversive as ever (...) There's a marvellously morbid, grotesque sense of absurd sado-masochistic ritual at play."
		Kim Newman Empire	"It seems likely that Czech surrealist genius Jan Svankmajer has been sampling bootleg Cronenberg tapes, since this latest masterpiece makes a strange companion piece to 'Crash' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Jerry Renshaw Austin Chronicle	"Svankmajer has concocted a bizarre and often-hilarious film that examines the nature of obsession and looks at its place in a repressive society"
		David Rooney Variety	"The project was conceived as a 12 -minute short, and only during shooting did the expansion to feature length take place. This arguably was a mistake, since the film’s dark humor may have better sustained a brief running time."
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[It] is seriously funny and cheekily subversive"

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