Directed by Jan Svankmajer
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Zeitgeist Films)
The Marquis De Sade (Jan Triska, in a virtuoso performance) kidnaps a patient in an insane asylum (Pavel Liska) for his own amusement and pleasure. In the film's best scene, the poor fellow witnesses a heretical mass in which the Marquis explains his philosophy by railing against Nature, God and religion. He takes Liska to another asylum in which patients get therapy by exercising their free will, in other words acting out all of their perversions. The Marquis, who runs the place, does much of the same. Liska falls in love with another patient, the beautiful Anna Geislerova, but she may be using him for her own pleasure as well. It leads to a shaky ending, implying it was all just a bad dream. Svankmajer's filmed introduction sounds more like an apology, and the connecting stop-motion animated segments of tongues and other body parts is distracting, since everything in between is good enough to stand on its own.
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