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Conspirators of Pleasure [DVD] (1996)

Petr Meissel , Gabriela Wilhelmová , Jan Svankmajer    Suitable for 18 years and over   DVD
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  • Actors: Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová, Anna Wetlinská, Jirí Lábus
  • Directors: Jan Svankmajer
  • Format: PAL, Colour, Dolby, Digital Sound
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: New Wave Films
  • DVD Release Date: 25 Jun 2012
  • Run Time: 82 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B007XVKTA0
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 38,368 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Svankmajer, the Czech genius of surrealism, explores the bizarre erotic impulses of various individuals in modern Prague. One man collects porn magazines, chickens and umbrellas to fashion himself a weird creature. His neighbour does similar things with straw. And then they meet up…Their newsagent tinkers with anatomical additions to his hi-tech TV set so he can gloat over the beautiful newsreader. But the newsreader keeps carp in a bowl in her bedroom for bizarre reasons, while her neglectful husband hears operatic climaxes in his head whenever he encounters saucepan lids, fur, nails and latex fingers. Finally, there's the postwoman, who rolls bread into doughballs for very odd purposes, after delivering to the first man an ominous note simply saying 'Sunday'.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Truly Bizarre 15 Nov 2012
By Richard Allen TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
I first came across the director Jan Svankmajer when I watched Little Otik. If the idea of a darkly comic eastern european fairly tale appeals to you, then I highly recommend it. Five stars. This film shares the same fantasic cinematography and imagery, and a great deal of Svankmajer's stop frame animation, which is fascinating to watch. Where it differs is in the narrative. There's very little story here, as it tells the tale of five loosely linked characters and their bizarre, largely sexual fantasies. Quite where these come from in anyone's imagination is hard to fathom (though the credits are in Czech, there are references to Freud and other psychoanalysts, which might be a clue). Clearly the director has allowed his imagination free rein. With no dialogue, you can simply watch, intrigued to see what can possibly happen next. I shan't give too much of the story as it's the bizarre nature of the events unfolding that makes it fascinating. It's too wierd to give it five stars, but definitely worth a watch if you want to see something truly different.
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