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Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
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24 September 2008 (France)
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Guy Maddin reluctantly returns to his childhood home, an abandoned Canadian island, where his parents ran an orphanage...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gretchen Krich | ... | Mother |
| Sullivan Brown | ... | Young Guy Maddin |
 | Maya Lawson | ... | Sis |
 | Katherine E. Scharhon | ... | Chance Hale / Wendy Hale |
| Todd Moore | ... | Father |
| Andrew Loviska | ... | Savage Tom |
| Kellan Larson | ... | Neddie |
| Erik Steffen Maahs | ... | Older Guy Maddin |
| Cathleen O'Malley | ... | Young Mother |
| Clayton Corzatte | ... | Old Father |
| Susan Corzatte | ... | Old Mother |
| Megan Murphy | ... | Murderous Sister |
| Annette Toutonghi | ... | Murderous Sister |
| David Lobo | ... | Oarsman |
| Eric Lobo | ... | Oarsman |
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Edited into 97 Percent True (2008) (V)
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Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin's ecstatically perverse jaunt into childhood's protracted gestation period is a hypnotic murk-fest filled to the brim with Sturm und Drang neo-psychedelia. Guy (Erik Steffen Maahs) returns to his childhood homestead, a lighthouse to restore it with two coats of paint for an ailing mother. Outsized delirium takes over: ghoulish rituals, surreptitious experiments, demented ghosts, social vampires and other phantasms of psychosis of an overextended memory is underpinned by distinctly Freudian impulses turned into artistic statements. The miscegenation of silent-era aesthetics, a mosaic of encoded visual cues and Maddin's continued fascination with high theatricality punctuated with trippy pop iconography delivers a Gothic fever dream that remains etched in your mind, whether you like it or not.