LUNACY

Jean Berlot suffers from a recurrent nightmare in which two brawny wardens are trying to force him into a straitjacket. Coming home from his mother’s funeral, he meets the Marquis, charismatic and shady in equal measure, who offers him the prospect of a rapid cure. He admits Berlot to a psychiatric clinic whose patients seemingly enjoy complete freedom. But even the naive Berlot soon notices there’s something fishy about the place Behind the facade of surrealistic curiosities, foremost an odyssey of pieces of meat crawling about to the sound of jangling music, Švankmajer exposes the hypocritical core of various coercive systems and ideologies.