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10/27/07
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Brand Upon The Brain! (2006)
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Reviews Counted:46
Fresh:42
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: A bizarre yet compelling spectacle, Brand Upon the Brain! is a unique cinematic experience.
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... [More]
Starring: Gretchen Krich, Eric Maahs, Catherine Scharhon, Sullivan Brown
Director: Guy Maddin
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Reviews for Brand Upon The Brain!
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10/18/08
A drolly phantasmagoric, silent-film spectacle in which Freud meets Feuillade and Frankenstein! Not to discredit its wild artistry by saying the gimmick's the prize, but... the gimmick's the prize.
05/08/07
exploring the phenomenon of memory with a transcendence that includes reality and fantasy with equal measure and equal importance. It is dark, it is disturbing, and yet, this is the man's genius, it is also wildly, improbably, blessedly funny
06/20/07
A surprisingly frightening and affecting film, launching itself from vertiginous peaks into shadowy hollows.
05/10/07
Top CriticSucceeds at one and the same time in functioning as both a celebration and a deconstruction of the conscious and unconscious glories of silent movies through the barely 30 years of their existence at the beginning of the 20th century.
05/16/07
Top Critic... an experience that has to be seen/heard to be believed.
07/15/07
The mythic nuttiness gets under your skin just as these archetypal figures gradually penetrate each other’s subterfuges, skulls, and orifices.
12/01/07
... a feverishly imaginative Freudian vampire film ...
06/15/07
Top CriticA carnival funhouse somehow invested with a powerful emotionality.
05/09/07
Welcome to the Spectacle of the Summer!
05/09/07
Puppy love and adult lust converge in Madden's grainy, humor-ridden "silent movie" that will certainly leave a brand upon your little brain.
06/07/07
The deliciously unhinged Guy Maddin makes films that are funny, sinister and mysterious at the same time.
10/04/07
With Brand Upon the Brain! filmmaker Guy Maddin proves he's just like the rest of us.
06/08/07
If you are drawn to oddball films like David Lynch's Eraserhead, then you should feel at home here.
09/02/08
Visually opaque and narratively enigmatic.
11/01/07
Avant-garde to the last shuttering edit, Guy Maddin's signature aesthetic is also, paradoxically enough, a classical fusion of style and content.
05/09/07
Maddin has created a world of pure imagination -- a fairy tale with the darkness and light of youth and the hopes and fears of adulthood.
09/23/06
It's all pretty amusing, and Maddin never runs short on ideas, neither narrative nor visual.
06/14/07
The inimitable Guy Maddin outdoes himself with psyche-probing silent film.
09/15/06
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