Throughout his career, Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer made a ton of creepy films...mostly shorts. Often he used stop-motion, but here in "Don Juan" he uses fake puppets to tell the story. What I mean by this is that giant wooden puppet costumes are worn by people and cords are attached to then as if they are marionettes. This allowed the folks in the weird costumes to leave the stage and run about...and run about is what Don Juan does. This version of the Don is a murderous maniac and he goes on a killing rampage when his father won't give him money...and then he murders his girlfriend's daddy! Clearly, this is NOT a nice puppet!
So is this any good? Well, it certainly is creative an unique...I'll give the film that. It's also awfully weird. But it's not among the better films of the filmmaker...more a curiosity and than anything else. You do get to see a puppet bleed profusely...and I think that's a first. Overall, very strange but a bit dull and not among the filmmaker's best.
