Conspirators of Pleasure(Spiklenci slasti)
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Czech Republic, Switzerland, United Kingdom · 1996
1h 23m
Director Jan Švankmajer
Starring Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová, Anna Wetlinská
Genre Drama, Animation, Comedy
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Six individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge in with care. For example, a mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed, a shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to massage and masturbate him, and the TV news reader has her own fantasy involving carp.
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Crude but surprisingly not very lewd, Svankmajer’s Conspirators of Pleasure takes us through a cartoonishly perverse world of elaborate fetishes carried out with the utmost care and attention. I feel like the genius of this film lies in its conspicuous lack of sex appeal, all eroticism bled out through ridiculously elaborate, lengthy rituals, creating a veritable Rube Goldberg machine of sexuality. The paraphilias here seem almost Looney Toons-esque, something highlighted through Svankmajer’s expert use of stop-motion animation and claymation.