Yet another ho-hum Maddin pic that sounds great on paper but doesn't play so on the screen. I can easily imagine Maddin and his gang amusing themselves for hours on end by their oh-so-clever ideas. It's all just becoming so much tired filmmaking from someone who appears to have some "in" with Canadian government funding.
And let's face it: this particular film is great for an audience with absolutely no background in film history. For those folks, I'm sure this comes across as incredibly fresh and different. For the rest of us, it's just plundering the stills files of various film archives for ideas stretched far too thin.
Still, Isabella looks radiant in period garb and Vaseline halos. See this movie if you want to see how Ingrid Bergman might have fared in a Peter Greenaway conceit as filmed by Karl Freund.
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And let's face it: this particular film is great for an audience with absolutely no background in film history. For those folks, I'm sure this comes across as incredibly fresh and different. For the rest of us, it's just plundering the stills files of various film archives for ideas stretched far too thin.
Still, Isabella looks radiant in period garb and Vaseline halos. See this movie if you want to see how Ingrid Bergman might have fared in a Peter Greenaway conceit as filmed by Karl Freund.
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