Fresh
The director's form of genial cinematic dementia is guaranteed not to be to all tastes at all times, but those who are looking for something strange and different will feel right at home.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Brand Upon the Brain!
2007 · 1h 38m · NOT RATED
Drama, Mystery
Directed by
Guy Maddin
Overview
After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The deliciously unhinged Guy Maddin makes films that are funny, sinister and mysterious at the same time.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
For me it captures Maddin at his loopiest and most inspired.
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
Fresh
Narrated by Isabella Rossellini and enhanced by Jason Staczek's superb score, this is characteristically intense and, unlike most of Maddin's silent-movie models, frenetically edited.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
No matter how much the director disguises the tale in flickery symbolism, the emotions feel painful and personal.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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