Average Rating: 7.9/10
Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 77 | Rotten: 5
My Winnipeg is a charmingly irreverent 'docu-fantasy' from the unpredictable mind of Guy Maddin.
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 0
My Winnipeg is a charmingly irreverent 'docu-fantasy' from the unpredictable mind of Guy Maddin.
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Visionary Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin pays tribute to his beloved hometown with this goodbye letter and self-described "docu-fantasia" that is equal parts transcendental rumination, historical chronicle, and personal portrait. In the first segment, Maddin's camera drifts dreamlike through crowded trains as a floating kielbasa hangs from the ceiling and the director/narrator ponders just why the city boasts the most sleepwalkers per capita of any major international city. Later, the viewer is
Sep 7, 2007 Wide
Oct 28, 2008
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All Critics (83) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (77) | Rotten (5) | DVD (1)
Guy Maddin docu about his hometown gives fans everything they'd expect, plus a few moments of unexpected sincerity.
The best way to take My Winnipeg is with a box of popcorn and a grain of salt.
This is a secret history, and it's a wonder.
My Winnipeg is a mobile collage, and its assemblage is fascinating.
In the narration Maddin claims that Winnipeg has ten times as many sleepwalkers as any other city in the world, and though he's surely making this up, it conveys his own sense of entrapment amid the town's dreaminess.
If you love movies in the very sinews of your imagination, you should experience the work of Guy Maddin.
Presented with such dreamlike flourish and humor that watching the movie is extremely entertaining.
Maddin's exploration of his dysfunctional family life mirrors the crumbling facade of this major city. The symbolism is potent; the skill with which Maddin applies it, masterful.
Leaves one alternately giddy and groggy
It's so personal and so funny and so moving. Guy Maddin uses cinematic arts and crafts to convey his feelings about his home town
It'll stay with you and haunt you in the best possible way long after you left the cinema.
My Winnipeg is too funny and touching to be labeled purely experimental. It's magical, but the type of movie magic all can enjoy, if they only take a walk through the winter wonderland known as Winnipeg.
Maddin is a real film-maker with a confident, fluent movie language that is evolving in fascinating directions.
A film that makes what would seem like a mundane documentary into a funny, charming, relatable and interesting exploration of Maddin's home.
This love/hate tribute to [director Maddin's] hometown is one of the year's weirdest, most memorable 80 minutes of celluloid.
Given its unusual blend of fact and fiction, the film is a real head-scratcher. Like most -- if not all -- of Maddin's films, it's as bewildering as it is visually arresting. And yes, that means it's an acquired taste.
It's actually Maddin's most accessible film, and underneath the surreal images and foreboding narration is a relatively familiar message: You can go home again. And if you do, feel free to take some creative liberties here and there.
Maddin translated his befuddlement of Winnipeg to me, but not his fascination.
Maddin creates a rich tapestry weaving together fact and fiction.
A soft, drifting dream of a motion picture.
A visual poem about... well, Winnipeg. A fascinating projection of Guy Maddin's memories and personal mythologies about the city where he was born and raised, juxtaposed upon a fantastical recount of historical facts and urban legends with his trademark silent film aesthetic, grainy and ethereal. It's self-indulgent
August 11, 2009Super Reviewer
It sounds weird, but this is just the type of film I'd make if I were a filmmaker. It's like the dude voiced out my deepest, darkest, insomniacest sentiments and filmed it in a sort of hyper-nostalgic, Caligari surreal docudrama. It's a perfect homage to a weirdo town and you get the feeling the guy really, really
November 10, 2009Super Reviewer
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