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Brand Upon The Brain!

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Brand Upon The Brain! (2006)

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Reviews Counted:23

Fresh:16

Rotten:7

Average Rating:3.5/10

Consensus: A bizarre yet compelling spectacle, Brand Upon the Brain! is a unique cinematic experience.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:May 9, 2007 Limited

Box Office: $201,013

Synopsis: Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, MY WINNIPEG, CAREFUL) directs this moving silent satire about several families and the secrets they possess. Emotional yet thoughtful and infused with... Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, MY WINNIPEG, CAREFUL) directs this moving silent satire about several families and the secrets they possess. Emotional yet thoughtful and infused with surrealist touches, the film offers an original and somewhat horrific view on the experience--the aching delicateness--of growing up. Through his unconventionally autobiographical, transcendently un-gimmicky methods, Maddin once again cuts to the core of emotional truth. The film exists in several presentations, including its original silent format as well as with several voice-over narrations from such talents as Isabella Rosselini and poet John Ashbury. [More]

Starring: Gretchen Krich, Eric Maahs, Catherine Scharhon, Sullivan Brown

Starring: Gretchen Krich, Eric Maahs, Catherine Scharhon, Sullivan Brown, Todd Jefferson Moore, Maya Lawson

Director: Guy Maddin

Director: Guy Maddin
Screenwriter: Guy Maddin, George Toles
Producer: Amy E. Jacobson, Gregg Lachow
Composer: Jason Staczek
Studio: Vitagraph Films

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  • In the weird and wonderful super-cinematic world of Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin, personal memory collides with movie lore for a radical sensory overload. This eerie excursion into the gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a silent, black-and-white comic science-fiction nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Guy Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother. Originally mounted as a theatrical event (accompanied by live orchestra, foley artists, and assorted narrators), Brand upon the Brain! is an irreverent, delirious trip into the mind of one of current cinema's true eccentrics.
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    Brand Upon the Brain! may or may not be your cup of tea, but the title is fitting: You'll never forget it.

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    It's weird, creepy, imaginative, and unlike anything else out there.

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