My Winnipeg (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

The truth is relative.
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  • Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 28, 2014
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Total Count: 91

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 4,101
There's some genuine archival history threaded through the fantasy. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Dec 15, 2017
Rating: 3.5/4 -- This is a secret history, and it's a wonder. Full Review
Boston Globe
Jul 11, 2008
Guy Maddin docu about his hometown gives fans everything they'd expect, plus a few moments of unexpected sincerity.
Hollywood Reporter
Oct 18, 2008
MY WINNIPEG nudges at the heart of what it means to dream, and how our fantasies of who we are spring from the reality of where we are.
Sight and Sound
Jul 1, 2008
With his thrilling new documentary portrait of his hometown -- or rather, his new "docu-fantasia" -- Guy Maddin proves that you can go home again. Full Review
Stop Smiling
May 17, 2016
Rating: 4/5 -- More an abstract hallucination than a photo-realist portrait, My Winnipeg would be out of place on the "documentary" shelf at the video store. But it deserves prime placement in the Guy Maddin canon. Full Review
Tiny Mix Tapes
Dec 6, 2018
Rating: 3/4 -- Occasionally uneven and often opaque and aimless, but it is clear Maddin knows what he's doing. And by the time it is over, he has transported us not just to Winnipeg, but into the heart and soul of an artist. Full Review
From the Front Row
Jul 6, 2019

Product Description:

Canadian director Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD) takes his quasi-documentary strain of filmmaking to a satisfying, and deliriously inventive, extreme with MY WINNIPEG. The film follows Maddin, who narrates and plays the character of Darcy Fehr, as he tries to escape the Canadian city of Winnipeg. Maddin grew up in Winnipeg and spent his entire life there. The city seems to be casting a magnetic hold over him, so he decides to film his way out. He moves a cast of actors into his childhood home, asking them to recreate pivotal moments from his upbringing. Here the family gathers to undertake mundane chores and to watch a TV show named "Ledge Guy." The show stars Maddin's mother as a woman who tries to stop her son from committing suicide in each episode. Maddin couples these scenes with a warped history of Winnipeg, which include stories of a legendary racetrack fire and the sad tale of the city's ailing ice hockey team.

MY WINNIPEG finds Maddin sticking closely to the filmmaking style that he developed in features such as COWARDS BEND THE KNEE. The film apes silent-era techniques; shots fall in and out of focus; and Maddin uses Super-8, 16mm, and even a cell phone camera to help drive his vision. The B-movie star Ann Savage gives a wonderfully hammy performance as Maddin's mother, and the director's voiceover commentary demonstrates both his fondness for and his frustration with Winnipeg. It's difficult to ascertain how much truth there is in Maddin's recollections of the city's checkered history, but this only adds to the heightened sense of absurdity. MY WINNIPEG is a fine example of Maddin's extraordinary talents, and provides ample proof that he is one of the most resourceful and innovative filmmakers in the independent film scene.

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