Everything you probably never wanted to know and wouldn’t dream of asking about sexual fetishes is answered anyway in „The Conspirators of Pleasure.“ Czech animator Jan Svankmajer, whose „Alice“ and „Faust“ won a considerable international following, takes something of a backward step with this bizarre fusion of surreal comedy, grotesquerie and psychosexual fantasy.
Everything you probably never wanted to know and wouldn’t dream of asking about sexual fetishes is answered anyway in “The Conspirators of Pleasure.” Czech animator Jan Svankmajer, whose “Alice” and “Faust” won a considerable international following, takes something of a backward step with this bizarre fusion of surreal comedy, grotesquerie and psychosexual fantasy. Mainly live-action third feature could enjoy some marginal travel on the strength of the director’s name, but looks unlikely to muster the audiences of its predecessors.
