Amy Stewart, Darcy Fehr, David Stuart Evans
An expressionist work comprised of surreal action involving: a hockey rink that houses a forgotten wax museum, where ghosts of dead lovers stroll; and a beauty salon where a demented doctor, wearing a...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 20, 2005
Stats: 64 reviews
The impossible to summarize, dreamlike plot features a hockey player with a wandering eye, abortions, seductive ghosts, hand transplants, matricide, an ice breast, slapstick routines, and wax galoots. Shot as a silent film with disorienting, stuttering editing, "Cowards" is shoc...( read more)
Absolutely absurd. It's like My Winnipeg in some of the similar autobiographical content with the hockey and hair salons, except it's all done for a pure dreamlike nonsense of a story, which concerns Guy as the star of the Winnipeg Maroons hockey team, his pregnant girlfriend who...( read more)
Guy Maddin makes what are probably the most unusual black comedies in recent memory, and this is no exception. The story goes like this, a man brings his girlfriend to get an abortion at a beauty salon and ends up falling for the owners daughter during the proceedure, meanwhile ...( read more)
Guy Maddin's movies have made me appreciate how beautifully shot the old silent films were. There's so much movies can learn from them today.
Sooo bizarre, it freaked me out. It was kind of like being in a nightmare. Plus the room I was in was too cold, so it was not a pleasant experience for me.
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