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07/18/08
My Winnipeg (2008)
97 %
Reviews Counted: 58 Fresh: 56 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8/10
Consensus:
My Winnipeg is a charmingly irreverent 'docu-fantasy' from the unpredictable mind of Guy Maddin.
Rated: 12A
Runtime: 80 mins
Theatrical Release: 04-07-2008
Synopsis: Cult director Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD) revisits his boyhood in Winnipeg, casting 1940s femme fatale Ann Savage in the role of his mother. The reality-bending doesn't end there. Creative interpretations of local lore, reenactments of childhood traumas, and a... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Ann Savage, Amy Stewart, Brendan Cade, Wesley Cade, Louis Negin
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10/06/07
Top Critic
The best way to take My Winnipeg is with a box of popcorn and a grain of salt.
07/25/08
Maddin's weird, beautiful, funny and entertaining look at his hometown is probably about as personal and revealing as he's ever likely to get.
07/25/08
Despite the film's incredible specificity as one man's take on one city, the wistful My Winnipeg achieves a powerful universality.
07/25/08
[Director Guy Maddin's] striking combo of fact and fiction...keep the eye interested and the mind wondering what is real or not.
07/11/08
...an unusual valentine to a city, shot through the heart by Maddin's curious Cupid. A must-see for fans, a great introduction to the director's work for the uninitiated.
07/08/08
It's probably [Maddin's] best work yet...his easiest, funniest and most watchable film.
07/01/08
This is an achingly beautiful film full of black-and-white images working as both stark reality and soft-focus dreams. Maddin contemplates the far-off sense of leaving Winnipeg and seeks renewal through an anti-nostalgic look back at it.
07/01/08
In the narration Maddin claims that Winnipeg has ten times as many sleepwalkers as any other city in the world, and though he's surely making this up, it conveys his own sense of entrapment amid the town's dreaminess.
06/27/08
If you love movies in the very sinews of your imagination, you should experience the work of Guy Maddin.
06/27/08
Top Critic
It's a twisted but beautiful love letter to a city, not factually correct but emotionally true. At least for [director Guy] Maddin.
06/26/08
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