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About Jan Svankmajer
The Czech director and animation artist who was
born in 1934 is considered a Frank Kafka in cinema field for his unique
surrealistic style. His use of stop-motion and clay motion to create dreadful
yet funny surrealistic atmosphere in the movies has gained him popularity over
the decades. His works have the power to bring shocks and pessimism to the
audience.
Today, he is one of the most influential animation artists
in the world. His feature films, with his masterful use of animation techniques
including Alice, Faust, Little Otik
etc, are also well-known. This proves his high achievement in both animation
and motion picture. Cinema Space honorably presents the genius artist whose
name is quite new to Vietnamese audience.
About Lunacy (2005)
Based on 2 short stories of Edgar Poe and the life of
Marquis de Sade, Lunacy discusses the
contradiction between freedom and unreasonable constraint of social standards
through a story of a psychiatric hospital. The movie can be viewed as the
firmest philosophy declaration of complicated artist Jan Svankmajer. Full of
philosophy and stamp of Svankmajer’s unique style, Lunacy show the greatness of this Czech film maker. |
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