Andrew Loviska, Cathleen O'Malley, Erik Steffen Maahs
Canadian director Guy Maddin's "Brand Upon the Brain" is a silent film that reveals the shocking truth about his hellish childhood on a remote island under the watchful eye of a crazed mother hellbent...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 12, 2008
Stats: 283 reviews
Awesome blend of retro, avant garde, and camp. Although this recycles a lot of imagery and ideas from Cowards Bend the Knees and is not as complexly edited as that, it feels more personal due to the point of view being that of Guy's memories. I love how it's mostly silly kitsch b...( read more)
The films of Guy Maddin seek to reinvent the silent movie - they purposely look antique, with their black-and-white aged film stock and frantic editing creating mesmerizing flickering images. Such techniques could easily result in films of pure gimmickry, but Maddin's films are t...( read more)
I love this. And not only because it features my favorite cinematic namesake, Savage Tom.
Odd, but the recreation of silent film was different to say the least. I'm still surprised that the actors involved aren't dead or old and wrinkly.
It's repetitive and the ideas aren't all too interesting. With lesbianism, incest, heteroflexibility depicted at its most tame and ...( read more)
The second part in Maddin's "autobiographical" trilogy, is a strange tale about a family who live in a light house/orphanage. The Mother is a domineering monster, the father is a mad scientist, and the son and daughter, along with the help of the Lightbulb Kids (a "pair" of fict...( read more)
I have to admit, I loved this film because of the style. It reminded me of how my boyfriend makes films.
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Guy Maddin constructs cinematic carnivals. But sometimes the rides break.
It's not really innovative--in fact, it's just the opposite--but the silent movie approach is as good as any, since Guy Maddin's ideas are so elaborately perverse that a less antiquated spin on the material would hardly do it justice.
No matter how much the director disguises the tale in flickery symbolism, the emotions feel painful and personal. full review
An astonishing film: weird, obsessed, drawing on subterranean impulses, hypnotic. full review
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