Avant-garde to the last shuttering edit, Guy Maddin's signature aesthetic is also, paradoxically enough, a classical fusion of style and content.
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05/09/07
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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!
Brand Upon the Brain! is a baroque entertainment with one foot in silent cinema and the other gingerly toeing the sound waves.
05/09/07
Uniquely warped Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin's gleefully perverse exploration of feverish childhood terrors is audacious, hypnotic and utterly breathtaking, a near-silent film, almost entirely a black-and-white mosaic of starkly striking images.
05/08/07
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
A typically frenetic, Maddin-esque amalgam of the autobiographical, Freudian and willfully absurd.
09/27/06
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
The inimitable Guy Maddin outdoes himself with psyche-probing silent film.
09/15/06
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