If you love art, and if you love film, then you must love this! It is 6 minutes of 'essential' cinema. Maddin's career has many moments of brilliance but nowhere does he get it so right, so often, over such a short duration. Compacted brilliance. It's arch. It's camp. It's kitsch. It's crazy. It is. And it isn't. Wonderfully.
You can sketch an outline but it's really pretty pointless. Narrative blows itself out of the water. The thrills are all subterranean. The asylum is rocking tonight!
As with the best of Maddin's work, even when he collapses into hopelessly camp, I often find his failures more interesting and indicative than others great successes. It's the apotheosis of amateur film-making.
Don't let the professionals win. Vote with your heart.
You can sketch an outline but it's really pretty pointless. Narrative blows itself out of the water. The thrills are all subterranean. The asylum is rocking tonight!
As with the best of Maddin's work, even when he collapses into hopelessly camp, I often find his failures more interesting and indicative than others great successes. It's the apotheosis of amateur film-making.
Don't let the professionals win. Vote with your heart.