The Station Cinema - Winter Film Fest 09, Two screens with the latest releases in Richmond, North Yorkshire

12 | Surreal Documentary | 2 Screenings

With his latest work, My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin continues in the freewheeling, genre-bending tradition that has made him one of Canada’s most consistently intriguing and internationally respected artists. Described as a docu-fantasia, My Winnipeg is a story about his home town which blends local myth with childhood trauma to deliver an exotic shot of visual brilliance rarely seen on screen. Winner of the best Canadian feature film at the Toronto Film Festival 2007.

"My Winnipeg is poignant, truthful and hilarious."
Mark Kermode in The Observer

"Guy Maddin's homage to his home town of Winnipeg is an outstanding and often hilarious piece of film-making. Probably the only film ever to mix Freud, Proust and a love of ice hockey, My Winnipeg is a joyous, mischievous, hilarious flight of fancy. It's also a strangely profound demonstration of the way film can reanimate faded memory and bring ghosts back to life."
Jonathan Romney in The Independent

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