'In an age of censorship, even innocent pleasures can feel subversive' | CitySamuel
At least, that’s how I interpreted Conspirators of Pleasure, a surrealist black comedy by Jan Švankmajer, which explores the secret, quasi-sexual peccadilloes of six Prague residents. Part of what’s funny about the film is that none of the activities the characters get up to are clearly illegal, but the unspoken backdrop of totalitarian control has so ingrained in them the habits of secrecy that their weird private pleasures become inherently subversive.
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