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Guy Maddin

Canada2002 75min 35mm Both Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s interpretation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire yarn from stage to screen, Guy Maddin has forged a sumptuous, erotically charged feast of dance, drama and shadow. The black-and-white, blood-red-punctured is a Gothic grand guignol of the notorious Count and his bodice-ripped victims, fringed with the expressionistic strains of Gustav Mahler. 

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Guy Maddin

Born in 1956 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Guy Maddin studied economics at a university in Winnipeg. Before making films, he worked in a bank after college. Most of his films are made in his hometown, where he still lives. He never reads critic’s reviews on his films; he reviews his own films for The New York Times; he inserts personal chats, rather than explanatory commentary, with the producer and the writer for DVD release of his films. Maddin is just as eccentric as his films. His films have been already screened in the international film festival circuits, such as Toronto, New York, and Tokyo, and in 1995, the Telluride Film Festival awarded Guy Maddin who was barely forty at the time the Life-Time Achievement Award. Websites that pay a tribute to Guy Maddin and his films abound on the Internet. Some film critics pay eulogy to him as “a new hope in filmmaking of the new millennium.”