MIFF - My Winnipeg
What:
MIFF - My Winnipeg
When:
NEXT WEEK! Fri Aug 8, 7pm
Where:
MIFF at Greater Union, Russell St, Melbourne
Win:
We have 2 dbl passes for the Fri Aug 8, 7pm screening to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line: 'Wake up, Winnipegger!'
Breast milk! Betrayed! Wake up, Winnipegger! Even the titles that flash up during Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg are infectious. It's a kinda-sorta love-hate documentary about his home town, populated by dreamers, lorded over by his all-powerful mother, and made mythical by an avalanche of surreal new facts.
(Did you know that the mayor once judged illicit man-pagents? That orange jello is called ‘Night Manna'? That Winnipeg residents must, by law, take in any sleepwalkers who arrive at their door?)
It's easy to reduce Maddin to his idiosyncrasies - like describing his previous festival favourite The Saddest Music In The World as "Isabella Rossellini, glass legs, filled with beer" - but that doesn't account for the emotion in movies. As he hires actors to recreate pivotal childhood anecdotes, his ambivalence is tangible. How can you escape your past if you can't let go? What are we without our ghosts?
If David Lynch is famous for nightmares, maybe Guy Maddin creates daydreams. Maddin's soft-edged, silent film aesthetic, his memories permanently blanketed in falling snow, ensure My Winnipeg will make itself at home in your dreams.
Format: Festival
Mood: Nostalgic
Keywords: Guy Maddin, MIFF
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