Sílení (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.2/10   

Director:

Jan Svankmajer

Escritores:

Edgar Allan Poe (story) and
Marquis de Sade (story) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

17 noviembre 2005 (Czech Republic)

Género:

Horror

Plot:

A horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum - absolute freedom versus control and punishment...

Plot Keywords:

Therapy | Punishment | Marquis | Asylum | Nightmare

Premios:

2 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

the Gothic and the grotesque

Reparto

Pavel Liska	...	Jean Berlot
Jan Triska	...	Marquis
Anna Geislerová	...	Charlotte
Jaroslav Dusek	...	Dr. Murlloppe
Martin Huba	...	Dr. Coulmiere
Pavel Nový	...	Servant Dominic
Stano Danciak	...	Innkeeper
Jirí Krytinár	...	Reciting Madman
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Ctirad Götz	...	Ostler
Iva Littmanová
Katerina Ruzicková
Jan Svankmajer	...	Himself
Katerina Valachová

También conocida como:

Lunacy (USA)
Insania (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

Japan:123 min | Czech Republic:118 min | Argentina:118 min

País:

Czech Republic | Slovakia

Idioma:

Checo

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Czech Republic:15 | Japan:R-15 | Argentina:16

Compañía:

Athanor

Trivialidades:

The official Czech submission to the 2007 Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

the Gothic and the grotesque

Jan Svankmajer is one director to imaginatively combine real life images with the inventive use of stop motion animation that produces grotesque and nightmarish images that unnerve the viewer. LUNACY is further proof of this and its influence of Edgar Allen Poe and Marquis De Sade is perfect for the vision of Svankmajer. Its story concerns an innocent young man, travelling home from his mothers funeral who spends some time with a wealthy man, known only as the Marquis (possibly the Marquis De Sade). The young man bears witness to the Marquis' debauched and blasphemous rituals and after some philosophical discussion over the rights and wrongs of man and religion, the young man under the request of the Marquis goes undercover into an insane asylum and falls under the spell of a women who insists that he helps her release the actual warders and doctors who are locked away, as the inmates are running the asylum. The film is a bizarre yet brilliant look at a world gone insane, where fear, punishment and madness is ruling and no one is in charge and whoever is in charge is corrupted by there own absolute power and twisted morality. The stop motion animation interludes add to the grotesque and surreal nature of the film and even offers it to comparisons with the body horror films of David Cronenberg. Overall its an art house horror that provides the viewer an uneasy yet unforgettable journey into insanity.