
My Winnipeg
2007, Comedy/Documentary, 1h 20m
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My Winnipeg is a charmingly irreverent 'docu-fantasy' from the unpredictable mind of Guy Maddin. Read critic reviews
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Mayor Cornish
Janet Maddin
Guy Maddin
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Critic Reviews for My Winnipeg
All Critics (92) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (5)
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More an abstract hallucination than a photo-realist portrait, My Winnipeg would be out of place on the "documentary" shelf at the video store. But it deserves prime placement in the Guy Maddin canon.
December 6, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
Maddin mixes personal reminiscences with elaborate fantasies of Masonic rituals and collectivist brothels, to construct a vision of Winnipeg as a city of sleepwalkers.
January 26, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
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November 17, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 -
Maddin is a real film-maker with a confident, fluent movie language that is evolving in fascinating directions.
October 18, 2008 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
Guy Maddin docu about his hometown gives fans everything they'd expect, plus a few moments of unexpected sincerity.
October 18, 2008
Audience Reviews for My Winnipeg
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Aug 21, 2011One of the most inventive, unique, surreal, contemplative movies I have ever seen.Dillon L Super Reviewer
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Dec 12, 2010Easily my favourite Guy Maddin film that I've seen thus far. I guess I'd classify this as a documentary, albeit one like you've never seen before. The narration is great. There's some animated segments as well. Some very funny dark humour humour throughout (I havent laughed so hard at movie in a really long time) That vintage old tyme, surrealist look. I suspect some inspiration from 50's/60's Cold War Era propaganda films. Really can't think of anything negative to say about this one. Probably one of the best films to come out in the past 10 years or so.Ed Fucking H Super Reviewer
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Mar 05, 2010What might amount to Guy Maddin's own 8 1/2 is a ''docu-fantasia'' alright : passionate and playful, it is brimming with marvelous cinematic flashes and it carries quite an emotional resonance; a very surprising feat since it is an unabashedly subjective work of art. This is, like most of the director's work, a love-it-or-hate-it affair-- so I'm not going to hide the fact that am completely head over heels about this affectionate and delirious dream diary. One to add to your shortlist for sure.Laurence C Super Reviewer
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Nov 27, 2009The director's concept brings us into a world of fantasies, with surreal pictures in black and white. Bunuel, Lynch, Hitchcock, Bergman... I don't know actually where did he get his inspiration from, but this film is a blast of expose.quentin t Super Reviewer
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