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Cast
- Jason PatricUlysses Pick
- Isabella RosselliniHyacinth
- Udo KierDr. Lemke
- Louis NeginCalypso / Camille
- Brooke PalssonDenny
- David WontnerManners
- Kevin McDonaldOgilbe
- Daniel EnrightBig Ed
- Brent NealeDenton
- Olivia RameauRochelle
Recommendations
- 75
IndieWire
Keyhole never comes together, but that's part of Maddin's creed. He makes movies about movies to express his love for movies, which is to say he makes movies about himself. - 70
Village Voice
The film is infectiously somnambulant, so convincingly and unrelentingly dreamlike that its sudden end mimics the sensation of snapping awake from deep sleep. - 70
The New York Times
To a die-hard Maddinite this may be a little disappointing, but for that reason Keyhole may also be a perfect gateway into the bizarre and fertile world of a unique film artist. - 70
NPR
Just as Ulysses illustrates the reflective nature of his journey by constantly turning back the hands of the house's clocks, each film of Maddin's is a reset button for the past. The director operates like a ghost himself, going back over his personal history and the history of cinema in an endless loop until he gets them right. - 67
The A.V. Club
Keyhole's flashes of actual B-movie coherence are enough to make longtime Maddin-watchers wonder if he could've played this material straighter, with more of a plot and fewer reveries. - 63
Slant Magazine
A night of reckoning by a hoodlum in his haunted former home is a more sober and remote Freudian farrago than one expects from Guy Maddin. - 63
New York Post
I have to confess that this surreal departure by the iconoclastic filmmaker tried my patience more than a bit. - 60
Variety
Maddin's singular humor and fabulous black-and-white mise-en-scene can't sustain this fever dream beyond its initial fascination, making for an intriguing transitional work unlikely to broaden his audience.
