It's all pretty amusing, and Maddin never runs short on ideas, neither narrative nor visual.
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06/14/07
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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!
Captures an artist in love with his art, but not so preciously that he forgets to share the love.
06/14/07
With about a zillion quick cuts per minute, the film itself is like nothing you’ve ever seen.
06/12/07
You don't want to miss one frenzied minute of it.
06/08/07
Top CriticWith Brand Upon the Brain! filmmaker Guy Maddin proves he's just like the rest of us.
06/08/07
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
It is the kind of mind-blowing experience that will leave even the most jaded moviegoers shaken and stirred and positively dizzy with the possibilities of what can be achieved in cinema when a true original is at the controls.
05/21/07
An astonishing film: weird, obsessed, drawing on subterranean impulses, hypnotic.
05/18/07
Top CriticThe film is a singular achievement.
05/17/07
Top CriticTakes on the drifting, fragmented feel of a dream without sacrificing the meaning that reveals itself when you wake up.
05/17/07
Succeeds 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 CriticAn expressionist journey with the best, most shadowy sets, the most outrageous inventions and the most horrific childhood memories ever seen in a lighthouse or an orphanage, let alone both.
05/12/07
A typically spastic, experimental mix of old-fashioned movie effects and overheated Freudian melodrama.
05/12/07
It wouldn't be unfair to say one Maddin film is strikingly similar to another.
05/11/07
The psychosexual gamesmanship is exactly that -- a game -- yet Maddin never strays too deeply into irony to risk dismissal. (His cast seems wonderfully committed.)
05/10/07
A surprisingly frightening and affecting film, launching itself from vertiginous peaks into shadowy hollows.
05/10/07
Top CriticWelcome to the Spectacle of the Summer!
05/09/07
Beautiful, disturbing and indisputably unique.
05/09/07
Top CriticCanadian filmmaker Guy Maddin pushes his love of lurid melodrama to the limit in his latest demented treat, Brand Upon the Brain!
05/09/07
Top CriticA carnival funhouse somehow invested with a powerful emotionality.
05/09/07
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