My Winnipeg
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | My Winnipeg |
| Original title | My Winnipeg |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | about 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Guy Maddin |
| script |
Guy Maddin , George Toles |
| production |
Phyllis Laing , Guy Maddin , Jody Shapiro |
| camera | Jody Shapiro |
| cut | John Gurdebeke |
| occupation | |
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My Winnipeg is a Canadian pseudo-documentary / film autobiography from the year 2007 . The black and white film was directed by Guy Maddin , who wrote the script with George Toles , co-produced the film and speaks for it.
action
The film shows the childhood of the director Guy Maddin . These scenes are complemented by surrealist scenes that interpret the history of the snowy city of Winnipeg and use all kinds of urban myths . As a further addition, sleepwalking passengers on the trains that pass through Winnipeg or flee from it are shown. A notebook is also used to deal with a strange film production, sports and competitions, urban planning, the alleged occupation of Winnipeg by the National Socialist regime and again and again the mother whom he puts the words into his mouth. The re-enacted scenes of the film are shot in black and white , which is otherwise presented with a lot of subtitles as a collage of obscure archive material. The blurry images are times imaginative and profound times like a mantra confessional from the off comments.
Reviews
Eddie Cockrell wrote in Variety magazine on September 8, 2007 that the film was a "vigorous whim" that mixes fact and fiction and is definitely entertaining. Unlike some of the director's earlier films, it is not too long. The film combines silent film techniques with elements of a melodrama and is reminiscent of B-films from the 1940s.
Joe Morgenstern saw the Wall Street Journal of the technology " stream of consciousness " ( stream-of-consciousness used).
A. O. Scott found in the New York Times that central to the artist's "hallucinatory autobiography " was "that Winnipeg explains it."
Awards
Guy Maddin received a 2007 Toronto International Film Festival award for Best Canadian Feature Film .
backgrounds
Production costs were estimated at 600,000 US dollars . The world premiere took place on September 7, 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival . On February 8, 2008, the film was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival 2008 , which was followed by several other film festivals. It started in cinemas in the United States on June 13, 2008 and grossed around 37,000 US dollars there by June 22, 2008.
Web links
- My Winnipeg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My Winnipeg at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- My Winnipeg at Metacritic (English)
- Entry on www.berlinale.de (PDF file; 552 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film review by Eddie Cockrell ( memento of the original from June 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 12, 2008
- ↑ Joe Morgenstern: 'Kit Kittredge' Is a Rare Gift For Young Girls. In: Wall Street Journal . June 30, 2008, accessed March 22, 2009 .
- ^ A. O. Scott: My Winnipeg (2007) - Permafrost Makes the Heart Grow Stranger in a Haunted Snow Globe. In: The New York Times . June 13, 2008, accessed on March 22, 2009 (English): "But his real point [...] is that Winnipeg explains him"
- ^ Box office / business for My Winnipeg , accessed June 12, 2008
- ↑ Release dates for My Winnipeg , accessed June 12, 2008
- ↑ www.boxofficemojo.com , accessed June 26, 2008
