Synopsis
When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Darcy FehrGuy Maddin
- Melissa DionisioMeta
- Tara BirtwhistleLiliom
- Louis NeginDr. Fusi
- Amy StewartVeronica
- Mike BellMo Mott
- David Stuart EvansShaky
- Victor CowieMaddin's father
Recommendations
- 100
Village Voice
What's truly extraordinary about this movie--which strikes me on two viewings as Maddin's masterpiece--is that it not only plays like a dream but feels like one. - 100
New York Daily News
It's said to be an autobiography, but that pertains only in the loosest sense. It's a comedy. It's a 1920s silent movie. It is practically indescribable. And it is pure genius. - 100
Christian Science Monitor
There's a new visual idea every second, each teeming with energy, pitch-dark comedy, and inspired cinematic lunacy. - 80
The A.V. Club
Abortion, incest, infidelity, revenge, and hockey collide at a fever pitch, juxtaposed with such frantic energy that they're pushed to the level of high comedy, funniest at its most dramatic. - 80
Variety
Ultimately, psychotically inventive pic is a formidable addition to the ever-evolving Maddin oeuvre. - 80
The New York Times
There is also something rather splendid about this extended-play peep show, as if Mr. Maddin had stumbled across a hitherto lost archive of cinema's less-than-innocent past. What makes all this nostalgia for a movie history that never happened is that, as is always the case with Mr. Maddin's work, it's executed with more love than irony and not a whit of derision. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
Oddly, once removed from the museum setting and strung together into an hourlong feature, it's Maddin's most cohesive narrative. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The results are always visually arresting, while the narrative, even by Maddin standards, is completely out in the ozone.
