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Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece, a delirious melo-noir-drama.
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Fri 18 Jul 18:30 NFT3
A post-traumatic fever dream, Guy Maddin’s WWI-set masterpiece finds an amnesiac soldier steeped in loss: for love, country, and his right leg.
Plus The Heart of the World (2000, 5min).
Love lost, found, then lost again luminates Maddin's wildly opaque half-talkie, a delirious melo-noir-drama populated by a phalanx of amnesiacs - plagued by obsession, mustard gas apoplexia, or both. The circular narrative revolves (and revolves) around displaced WWI soldier John Boles, steeped in loss: of his country (Canada), love (Iris) and leg (right). A post-traumatic fever dream that forsakes narrative clarity, Maddin's early masterpiece fixates on von Sternbergian ritualism. Plus The Heart of the World (2000, 5min).
- Directed by:
- Guy Maddin
- Cast:
- Kyle McCullough, Kathy Marykuca, Sarah Neville
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 1990
- Running time:
- 90min