CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE

Homage

A sheepish purchaser of gentlemen’s magazines pasting together a larger- than-life cockerel’s mask, a well-built lady sewing up a straw doll, the owner of a newspaper kiosk concocting a masturbation machine, a postwoman kneading bread bullets, a husband who develops stroking instruments covered with fur and nails: in Švankmajer’s frozen social world, people transfer their need for affection to home-made fetishes. With sumptuous settings and driving music the film unfolds lascivious theatre in the minds of its viewers: hungry looks say more than words, desire flashes up in hyper-real sounds of lip-smacking noises, and it’s all a bit of a laugh.
SPIKLENCI SLASTI / VERSCHWÖRER DER LÜSTE
CZE, CHE 1996 / 75 min
Director: Jan Švankmajer
  • Screenplay: Jan Švankmajer
  • Cinematographer: Miroslav Špála
  • Animation: Bedřich Glaser
  • Cast: Petr Meissel,Gabriela Wilhelmová,Anna Wetlinská
  • Producer: Jaromír Kallista
  • Production Company: Athanor Film Production Company - Czech Republic
A sheepish purchaser of gentlemen’s magazines pasting together a larger- than-life cockerel’s mask, a well-built lady sewing up a straw doll, the owner of a newspaper kiosk concocting a masturbation machine, a postwoman kneading bread bullets, a husband who develops stroking instruments covered with fur and nails: in Švankmajer’s frozen social world, people transfer their need for affection to home-made fetishes. With sumptuous settings and driving music the film unfolds lascivious theatre in the minds of its viewers: hungry looks say more than words, desire flashes up in hyper-real sounds of lip-smacking noises, and it’s all a bit of a laugh.
  • Screenplay: Jan Švankmajer
  • Cinematographer: Miroslav Špála
  • Animation: Bedřich Glaser
  • Cast: Petr Meissel,Gabriela Wilhelmová,Anna Wetlinská
  • Producer: Jaromír Kallista
  • Production Company: Athanor Film Production Company - Czech Republic