My Winnipeg

Canada 2007, 80 minutes
Dir. Guy Maddin
Genres: Drama / Independent

Feat. Darcey Fehr, Ann Savage, Amy Stewart, Brendan Cade, Louis Negan

Aroview: Jolly fantasy-autobiography concerning the sleepy whirlpool of director Guy Maddin’s birthplace Winnipeg, his love/hate relationship with the town, and its dark, sordid secrets of the flesh.

Imaginative and fertile, Maddin splashes his well-loved, homely Movietone aesthetic onto an absurdist collection of tall-tales, filthy revelations, and long-repressed memories, in which ageing B-movie starlet Ann Savage is recruited to play his bewildered mother of sorts. A very large exclamation mark on spinning a good yarn, this is the timewarped filmmaker’s most accessible oddity yet, soaked to the bone in self-deprecating humour and hilarious, genital-fixated asides.

NZ International Film Festival 2008

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4 stars (Very Good) Unique, in my experience, and choice as - in the end. Give it at least thirty or forty minutes, but if you're not completely won over, ignore any other reviews I write. Director interview in some ways equal value to the film itself, combo even better. ~fudaizhi
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4 stars (Very Good) The selection of archival film is well done and so is the entertaining/informative narration which at times also has a political bite to it.rnA film that is not aimed at tourists for a change but is wonderfully depressing. ~Tubbs