Careful
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 24, 2009
- Originally Released: 1992
- Label: Zeitgeist Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Gosia Dobrowolska | |
| Performer: | Vince Rimmer, Kyle McCulloch, Brent Neale, Sarah Neville & Paul Cox | |
| Directed by | Guy Maddin | |
| Edited by | Guy Maddin | |
| Screenwriting by | George Toles & Guy Maddin | |
| Composition by | John McCulloch | |
| Produced by | Greg Klymkiw & Tracy Traeger |
Entertainment Reviews:
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...By far [Maddin's] most polished and coherent work....One long and amusing pun on German Expressionistic film...
New York Times
...Delightful...
Film Comment
Rating: 3/4 --
An acquired taste, Maddin is an unusually precise director who leaves little to chance. Whether one finds his approach too careful or just stunningly controlled will be up to individual cineastes.
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TV Guide
Rating: 2/5 --
Too strange for its own good, Careful is less interesting as a film than it is as a Canadian cinematic anomaly.
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Austin Chronicle
Rating: A- --
A weirdly amusing parable of sexual repression.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
... an utterly demented melodrama tale of the repressed residents of a small alpine village who live in virtual silence...
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Parallax View
Rating: 3/5 --
Careful is one long and amusing pun on German Expressionistic film imagery, Freudian psychology and quasi-Wagnerian storytelling, all carried to absurdist lengths.
New York Times
Product Description:
A stylish, parodic take on the German mountain films of the 1920's, this drama follows the travails of a widow and her three sons--the oldest of whom develops a sexual obsession for his mother--as they live in a Alpine town repressed by fears of an avalanche.
Description by Zeitgeist Films Ltd.:
The third feature from visionary Canadian auteur Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg, Brand upon the Brain!) takes place in a 19th-century mountain village where the wary residents must tread carefully and speak softly lest they cause an avalanche. Sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles with deadly consequences. Bathed in lurid tints that are more stunning than ever in Zeitgeist's new Hi-Def master, CAREFUL resembles a vintage melodrama from another planet that could only come from the singular mind of Guy Maddin. Zeitgeist continues its 20th anniversary celebration with this beautiful new "Remastered and Repressed" Edition of a cult classic.
Keywords:
Family Interaction
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Product Info
- UPC: 795975111232
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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