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10/18/08
My Winnipeg (2008)
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Reviews Counted:77
Fresh:73
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: My Winnipeg is a charmingly irreverent 'docu-fantasy' from the unpredictable mind of Guy Maddin.
Theatrical Release:Jun 13, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Cult director Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD) revisits his boyhood in Winnipeg, casting 1940s femme fatale Ann Savage in the role of his mother. The reality-bending doesn't end there.... [More]
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Reviews for My Winnipeg
Restaging his youth but making his own detours, Maddin transforms Winnipeg into a city of mystery.
06/19/08
My Winnipeg, which combines archival documentary images with freshly shot passages, is more concerned with lyrical truth than with literal accuracy.
06/13/08
Top CriticIngeniously madcap and heartfelt... more than just a whimsical curiosity, My Winnipeg takes an extraordinary leap forward...
04/26/08
This is an achingly beautiful film full of black-and-white images working as both stark reality and soft-focus dreams. Maddin contemplates the far-off sense of leaving Winnipeg and seeks renewal through an anti-nostalgic look back at it.
07/01/08
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
03/27/09
This tongue-in-cheek "docu-fantasia" about the hold his snowbound Manitoba hometown has over him is weird, winning and hilarious.
05/05/08
Top CriticIt might sound horribly arrogant to turn a "documentary" about a city into a history of your own emotional development, but the more one studies the body of Maddin's work, the more it makes sense.
06/20/08
Maddin has concocted his own urban myth - an oddball chronicle that re-maps his city's darkest back-lanes and by-ways as a repository for a lost innocence that neither he nor his fellow Winnipegers can ever fully recover, nor ever truly escape.
06/24/08
The dominant Maddin is the narrating filmmaker, more palpably present than usual in the sound of his voice, bemoaning a lost golden age of his hometown faced absurdities of the tall tale.
04/24/08
May be the year's stand-out achievement in alternate realities.
06/12/08
an awfully funny rendering of his home life as the runt of the litter
06/12/08
The result is Maddin's most personal film and his easiest to love.
06/27/08
Shot in his signature black-and-white, the movie sustains a dreamlike quality that freely allows non sequitur ideas, historical events, and memories to come alive.
06/12/08
Weird, fascinating and uproarious, My Winnipeg takes place not in chilly Manitoba but in the dreamscape of Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin's overheated imagination.
06/26/08
Snow and ice fill the frame in My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin's ookily brilliant evocation of his childhood.
06/13/08
My Winnipeg is overloaded and digressive -- it comes with the territory -- but it’s also grounded in a place, Maddin’s Manitoban hometown, and it’s painfully engrossing.
06/09/08
Top CriticWitty, moving and visually dazzling.
07/04/08
Deep, rich sound accompanies distressed, often unfocused black-and-white shots of nighttime winter streets, garishly lit interiors and archival footage. Splashes of color in cut-out animation segs add to the texture.
09/10/07
You're unlikely to find an easier entry into Maddin's wild world than this black-and-white 'docu-fantasia', a dryly funny, cheerfully false autobiography.
06/13/08
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