Like most of Maddin’s films, this bizarro fantasia reanimates the cinematic past with its silent-film structure and willfully archaic visual quality. Shot entirely on high-contrast 8mm and edited like an experiment in Soviet montage, theContinue reading
Category: Canadian Cinema
Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra, 1971)
Set in the blustery, frozen winter landscape of northern Quebec in the 1940s, this coming-of-age tale that is as much about life in a small rural mining town as it is about the travails ofContinue reading