My Winnipeg

directed by Guy Maddin

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Iconoclastic Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin (one of our favorites!) describes his latest as a "docu-fantasia" about his hometown. "Equal parts mystical rumination and personal history, city chronicle and deranged post-Freudian proletarian fantasy, My Winnipeg—which is framed as a goodbye letter—blends local myth with childhood trauma." (Toronto Film Festival) "Deeply personal, wryly funny and fantastically cinematic." (Chicago Tribune) more at ifcfilms.com 35mm

2008, b&w, 1 hour 20 minutes, Canada