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Brand Upon the Brain!

Original title: Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters
  • 20062006
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
3.6K
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Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
ComedyDramaFantasy
Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
3.6K
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    • Guy Maddin
    • Guy Maddin
    • Louis Negin(narration)
    • George Toles
  • Stars
    • Gretchen Krich
    • Sullivan Brown
    • Maya Lawson
    • Guy Maddin
    • Guy Maddin
    • Louis Negin(narration)
    • George Toles
  • Stars
    • Gretchen Krich
    • Sullivan Brown
    • Maya Lawson
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 32User reviews
    • 77Critic reviews
    • 79Metascore
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    Maya Lawson (Sis) and Sullivan Brown (Young Guy) in Guy Maddin's BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!
    Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
    Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
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    Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
    Jake Morgan-Scharhon in Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
    Jake Morgan-Scharhon in Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
    Jake Morgan-Scharhon in Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)

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    Gretchen Krich
    • Mother
    Sullivan Brown
    • Guy Maddin…
    Maya Lawson
    • Sis
    Jake Morgan-Scharhon
    Jake Morgan-Scharhon
    • Chance Hale
    • (as Katherine E. Scharhon)
    • …
    Todd Moore
    • Father
    Andrew Loviska
    • Savage Tom
    Kellan Larson
    • Neddie
    Erik Steffen Maahs
    • Guy Maddin…
    Cathleen O'Malley
    Cathleen O'Malley
    • Mother…
    Clayton Corzatte
    • Father…
    Susan Corzatte
    • Mother…
    Megan Murphy
    • Murderous Sister
    Annette Toutonghi
    Annette Toutonghi
    • Murderous Sister
    David Lobo
    • Oarsman
    Eric Lobo
    • Oarsman
    Sarah Harlett
    • Adopting Couple
    Dan Tierney
    • Adopting Couple
    David Armo
    • Orphan
      • Guy Maddin
      • Guy Maddin
      • Louis Negin(narration)
      • George Toles
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    • Trivia
      Shot in nine days and edited over three months.
    • Quotes

      Narrator: What's a suicide attempt without a wedding?

    • Connections
      Edited into 97 Percent True (2008)

    User reviews32

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    8/10
    Like a Gothic fever dream
    Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin's ecstatically perverse jaunt into childhood's protracted gestation period is a hypnotic murk-fest filled to the brim with Sturm und Drang neo-psychedelia. Guy (Erik Steffen Maahs) returns to his childhood homestead, a lighthouse to restore it with two coats of paint for an ailing mother. Outsized delirium takes over: ghoulish rituals, surreptitious experiments, demented ghosts, social vampires and other phantasms of psychosis of an overextended memory is underpinned by distinctly Freudian impulses turned into artistic statements. The miscegenation of silent-era aesthetics, a mosaic of encoded visual cues and Maddin's continued fascination with high theatricality punctuated with trippy pop iconography delivers a Gothic fever dream that remains etched in your mind, whether you like it or not.
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    • Release date
      • September 24, 2008 (France)
      • United States
      • ED Distribution (France)
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      • English
    • Also known as
      • Seattle, Washington, USA
    • Production company
      • The Film Company
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    • 1 hour 35 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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