Careful (1992)
This is the first full-length piece I've seen from cult Canadian maestro Guy Maddin, and I had essentially the same feelings for it that I had for his acclaimed short The Heart of the World -- I find it formally dazzling, weirdly funny and completely impenetrable. Maddin's clearly trying to say something here with his stylized (some might say fetishized) Expressionistic tableau and his crackpot dialogue and his inclusion of multiple fractured families. But I haven't the foggiest what the message might be. It's entertaining and tedious in about the same measures, but it hasn't turned me off Maddin. I may warm to him yet.
Grade: C+
This is the first full-length piece I've seen from cult Canadian maestro Guy Maddin, and I had essentially the same feelings for it that I had for his acclaimed short The Heart of the World -- I find it formally dazzling, weirdly funny and completely impenetrable. Maddin's clearly trying to say something here with his stylized (some might say fetishized) Expressionistic tableau and his crackpot dialogue and his inclusion of multiple fractured families. But I haven't the foggiest what the message might be. It's entertaining and tedious in about the same measures, but it hasn't turned me off Maddin. I may warm to him yet.
Grade: C+
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