Guy Maddin docu about his hometown gives fans everything they'd expect, plus a few moments of unexpected sincerity.
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10/18/08
My Winnipeg (2008)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:25
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.2/10
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
Top CriticThe best way to take My Winnipeg is with a box of popcorn and a grain of salt.
07/25/08
Top CriticThis is a secret history, and it's a wonder.
07/11/08
Top CriticMy Winnipeg is a mobile collage, and its assemblage is fascinating.
06/29/08
Top CriticIn 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.
06/27/08
Top CriticIf you love movies in the very sinews of your imagination, you should experience the work of Guy Maddin.
06/27/08
Top CriticAn unhinged, utterly delightful 'documentary'.
06/26/08
Top CriticFor the uninitiated, I heartily recommend this free-associative, autobiographical gem.
06/26/08
Top CriticMuch of what Maddin asserts as truth is balderdash. He was not, for example, born in the locker room of the local hockey team's arena.
06/26/08
Top CriticWeird, 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
Top CriticThe film, shot in black and white, like most of Maddin's creations, is a treat for fans and a migraine for the uninitiated or terminally dull.
06/20/08
Top CriticThis haunting phantasmagoria of a film -- comic, singular, surreal -- is not only something no one but the Canadian director could have made, it's also a film no one else would have even wanted to make. Which is the heart of its appeal.
06/20/08
Top CriticThis autobiographical meditation is seductively funny, as well as deliciously strange, and hauntingly beautiful, as well as stream-of-consciousness cockeyed.
06/20/08
Top CriticMy Winnipeg is like no documentary you've ever seen.
06/20/08
Top CriticAn entrancing riffle through the olde curiosity shoppe of the filmmaker's psyche.
06/13/08
Top CriticMy Winnipeg, which combines archival documentary images with freshly shot passages, is more concerned with lyrical truth than with literal accuracy.
06/13/08
Top CriticGuy Maddin's films are always delightful, but his latest, My Winnipeg, has an added treat for film buffs: It features Ann Savage!
06/13/08
Top CriticYou'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
Top CriticA movie that is as happily warped and enthusiastically disturbed as the rest of [director Guy] Maddin's eccentric cinema.
06/13/08
Top CriticMy Winnipeg is Maddin's best filmmaking since the not-dissimilar confessional bargain-basement phantasmagoria, Cowards Bend the Knee. The editing is dense; the action is fluid.
06/11/08
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