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Careful (1992)

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Reviews Counted:11

Fresh:9

Rotten:2

Average Rating:6.5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: A stylish, parodic take on the German mountain films of the 1920's, this drama follows the travails of a widow and her three sons--the oldest of whom develops a sexual obsession for his mother--as... A stylish, parodic take on the German mountain films of the 1920's, this drama follows the travails of a widow and her three sons--the oldest of whom develops a sexual obsession for his mother--as they live in a Alpine town repressed by fears of an avalanche. [More]

Starring: Gosia Dobrowolska, Vince Rimmer, Kyle McCulloch, Brent Neale

Starring: Gosia Dobrowolska, Vince Rimmer, Kyle McCulloch, Brent Neale, Sarah Neville, Paul Cox

Director: Guy Maddin

Director: Guy Maddin
Screenwriter: George Toles, Guy Maddin
Producer: Greg Klymkiw, Tracy Traeger
Composer: John McCulloch

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Uniquely weird, subtly macabre, and utterly compelling.

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06/24/06
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It's certainly an astounding film for its purely spectacular terms.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
03/27/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

An acquired taste, Maddin is an unusually precise director who leaves little to chance. Whether one finds his approach too careful or just stunningly controlled will be up to individual cineastes.

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05/08/07
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In part a hilarious satire about Canadian timidity, it also comes across periodically as a formalist gem about nothing at all.

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05/08/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

A weirdly amusing parable of sexual repression.

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10/03/06
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
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03/09/06
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
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06/28/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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Careful is one long and amusing pun on German Expressionistic film imagery, Freudian psychology and quasi-Wagnerian storytelling, all carried to absurdist lengths.

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05/20/03
Stephen Holden
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01/01/00
Bruce Kirkland
Bruce Kirkland
Jam! Movies

There's something wonderfully unique about the project but the reasons for doing it remain buried.

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01/01/00
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post

Careful, the hilariously bizarre new film from Canadian director Guy Maddin, is like some lost masterpiece from a time-warped alternative dimension -- a strange artifact that time forgot.

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01/01/00
Hal Hinson
Hal Hinson
Washington Post

Too strange for its own good, Careful is less interesting as a film than it is as a Canadian cinematic anomaly.

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01/01/00
Marc Savlov
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Austin Chronicle
 
 
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