Cowards Bend the Knee
Guy Maddin’s masterful, kinetic fake autobiography.
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Packed with kinetic action, Guy Maddin’s greatest film is a fake autobiography, set in a hockey arena and a beauty salon-slash-abortion clinic.
Plus The Dead Father (1985, 21min) and Sombra Dolorosa (2004, 6min).
Packed with enough kinetically photographed action to amount to a constant cliffhanger, the masterful, onanistic Cowards could pass for a Feuillade serial, condensed and blenderised. The mythomaniacal Maddin casts 'himself' as a hockey sniper made lily-livered by mother and daughter femmes fatales, and resurrects his father as romantic antagonist. Alternating between a shadowy hockey arena and a beauty salon/abortion clinic, it's Hands of Orlac meets Mad Love. And dazzling. Plus The Dead Father (1985, 21min) and Sombra Dolorosa (2004, 6min).
- Directed by:
- Guy Maddin
- Cast:
- Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Louis Negin, Victor Cowie
- Country:
- Canada
- Year:
- 2003
- Running time:
- 60min