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4 July 2008 (UK) morePlot:
A personal portrait of filmmaker Guy Maddin's hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. | add synopsisAwards:
3 wins & 1 nomination moreNewsDesk:
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Guy Maddin! Beer! Amputees! Talkies! In the Twin Cities. (From Twitch. 4 May 2009, 12:29 PM, PDT)
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(From Roger Ebert's Blog. 2 May 2009, 4:38 PM, PDT)
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Maddin's Winnipeg moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ann Savage | ... | Mother | |
| Louis Negin | ... | Mayor Cornish | |
| Amy Stewart | ... | Janet Maddin | |
| Darcy Fehr | ... | Guy Maddin | |
| Brendan Cade | ... | Cameron Maddin | |
| Wesley Cade | ... | Ross Maddin | |
| Lou Profeta | ... | Himself | |
| Fred Dunsmore | ... | Himself | |
| Kate Yacula | ... | Citizen Girl | |
| Jacelyn Lobay | ... | Gwenyth Lloyd | |
| Eric Nipp | ... | Viscount Gort | |
| Jennifer Palichuk | ... | Althea Cornish | |
| Deborah Carlson | |||
| Kevin Harris | |||
| Scott Hamel |
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Guy Maddin's ninth feature is a pseudo-documentary about the director's hometown of Winnipeg. It mostly focuses on his relationship with the city, but it also includes re-enactments of his family life and famous weird things that happened in the city's past. It's a bit of a mess, but, as I've said before regarding Maddin, his films play out like dreams. A mess makes sense a lot of the time. I do think the film lacks the focus of his best work, and is, in fact, my least favorite of his features. Also contributing to my relatively low opinion of it (i.e., I don't think it's one of the best movies ever) is Maddin's own narration. I loved his previous film, The Brand Upon the Brain!, but objected to the narration. It's even worse here, taking a lot of the mystique out of the silent film pastiche Maddin has been perfecting since The Heart of the World (I'm kind of hoping that he'll some day return to the stuff of his earlier works, which felt more like the films of the '30s than those of the '20s). My favorite sequences were the occult ceremony in the Masonic temple and the hockey legends game, where septuagenarians play one last game as their stadium is demolished by wrecking balls. Darcy Fehr of Cowards Bend the Knee returns as Guy Maddin, who, in the movie, is as desperate to leave his depressing hometown as he is to stay (throughout the movie, Fehr appears dozing in a train car that never seems to get out of Winnipeg). And Maddin dug up Detour's Ann Savage, possibly literally, to play his mom.