Truly bizarre, but very enjoyable. It reminded me of a Terry Gilliam Monty Python animation brought to life. Builds quite slowly but you can't stop watching because you know something quite outlandish is waiting at the end, and the movie delivers. With no dialogue the film relies on surreal and absurd situations for entertainment, but considering the subject matter it never devolves into tastelessness. Thoroughly entertaining.

The film has a remarkable tactility thanks to all the close-ups following people's hands, which is a huge plus for a film that is largely about sensuality. It's appropriate that Svankmajer, a man who spent his life making things and toying around with them in his stop-motion films, would make a film about making things and that he makes it so convincing is no surprise. The film's sense of humour is thankfully embracing rather than sardonic. The ending felt completely out of place.

It's veeeery slow for the first 20 or so minutes, but the pay-off is very funny and very bizarre - all of that preparation for the enactment of the sexual acts makes the acts themselves like a very sudden release into Svankmajer territory, especially since stop-motion finally comes into play. Also, there's not a single line of dialogue. That's pretty cool.

Haha. Very funny, and ridiculously insane. Perhaps a little too weird for its own good, and I like to think I have a pretty high tolerance for the bizarre.

proves the point that even thirty years into his career, svankmajer cant make his movies make sense.