Brand Upon the Brain! (2006) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Brand Upon the Brain!
Year
2006
Running time
95 min.
Country
Canada
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Music
Cinematography
Producer
Co-production Canada-United States;
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Synopsis
Guy Maddin reluctantly returns to his childhood home, an abandoned Canadian island, where his parents ran an orphanage. As Guy fulfills his dying mother's request to paint the lighthouse which served as the orphanage, memories of strange events there overpower him. An undercover investigation by child author/detective Wendy & a revolt by the repressed children, blew open a cover-up by Guy's parents. Wendy disguised herself as her brother Chance and discovered that Maddin's inventor father performed outré scientific experiments on the orphans.
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Critics' reviews
- "It's an astonishing film: weird, obsessed, drawing on subterranean impulses, hypnotic."
- "The result is giddy, exciting and hilarious, not quite like any artistic experience you've ever had."
- "A feverishly imaginative Freudian vampire film from Guy Maddin, is like a silent-movie serial by Louis Feuillade or an improbable collaboration between writer Oscar Wilde and photographer Man Ray."
- "Audacious, hypnotic and utterly breathtaking"
- "Not many people are making silent horror serials these days, but Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin pushes his love of lurid melodrama to the limit in his latest demented treat"
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- 88 My Favorite Canadian Movies (6)
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