The gradual slip into tragedy in the film's last few reels offer up a reeling pathos rare in a Svankmajer picture.

~ James Benefield -

The gradual slip into tragedy in the film's last few reels offer up a reeling pathos rare in a Svankmajer picture.

~ James Benefield -

Svankmajer makes the whole world a madhouse and all humanity its patients.

~ Anton Bitel -

Svankmajer makes the whole world a madhouse and all humanity its patients.

~ Anton Bitel -

Severely patience-trying.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

Severely patience-trying.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

The animator brings to full life precisely what his rulers were endeavouring to keep repressed: the nightmarish, the unconscious, the nonsensical, the abject, the uncanny, the insatiable, the immoderate, the ecstatic.

~ Anton Bitel -

The animator brings to full life precisely what his rulers were endeavouring to keep repressed: the nightmarish, the unconscious, the nonsensical, the abject, the uncanny, the insatiable, the immoderate, the ecstatic.

~ Anton Bitel -

In short, Insect is a self-consuming product, always at pains to expose its artifice as it offers behind-the-scenes commentary on both its own and the play's making.

~ Anton Bitel -

In short, Insect is a self-consuming product, always at pains to expose its artifice as it offers behind-the-scenes commentary on both its own and the play's making.

~ Anton Bitel -

Alice certainly is a triumph of the creative imagination, reordering both Lewis Carroll's original text and the drabness of the material world into a disturbing wonderland of textures and tactility .

~ Anton Bitel -

Alice certainly is a triumph of the creative imagination, reordering both Lewis Carroll's original text and the drabness of the material world into a disturbing wonderland of textures and tactility .

~ Anton Bitel -