Guy Maddin's portrait of his native city is intensely idiosyncratic and hilariously unreliable, constructed around his apparently doomed imperative to...
Guy Maddin's portrait of his native city is intensely idiosyncratic and hilariously unreliable, constructed around his apparently doomed imperative to escape the place, and with it his mother. [Source: NZFF08]
Guy Maddin casts B-movie icon Ann Savage as his domineering mother in My Winnipeg, a goodbye letter to his childhood hometown. A documentary (or "docu-fantasia" as Maddin proclaims) that inventively blends local and personal history with surrealist images and metaphorical myths, the film covers everything from the fire at the local park which lead to a frozen lake of distressed horse heads to pivotal and factually heightened scenes from Maddin's own childhood.
Guy Maddin casts B-movie icon Ann Savage as his domineering mother in My Winnipeg, a goodbye letter to his childhood hometown. A documentary (or "docu-fantasia" as Maddin proclaims) that inventively blends local and personal history with surrealist images and metaphorical myths, the film covers everything from the fire at the local park which lead to a frozen lake of distressed horse heads to pivotal and factually heightened scenes from Maddin's own childhood.
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My Winnipeg | Details
Award winner- Best Canadian Feature, Toronto Film Festival 2007
- Runtime
- 80
- Genre
- Documentary, Drama
- Country of origin
- Canada
