My Winnipeg
- Darcy Fehr: Guy Maddin
- Ann Savage: Mother
- Amy Stewart: Janet Maddin
- Louis Negin: Mayor Cornish
- Brendan Cade Cameron Maddin
- Wesley Cade: Ross Maddin
My Winnipeg is a Canadian Pseudo-Dokumentation/Filmautobiografie from the year 2007. Directed the black and white film led Guy Maddin, who wrote the screenplay with George Toles, the film co-produced and it speaks.
Action
The film shows the childhood of the director Guy Maddin. These scenes are complemented by surrealistic scenes that interpret the history of the snowy city of Winnipeg and use all sorts of urban myths. As a further supplementing somnambulistic passengers of the trains are shown driving through Winnipeg or flee from it. Next a strange film production is treated on the basis of a notebook, sports and competitions, urban planning, the alleged occupation of Winnipeg by the National Socialist regime and again the mother, he puts the words in the mouth. The re-enacted scenes of the film are shot in black and white, who usually presents itself with a lot of intertitles as a collage obscure archive material. The blurry pictures are times imaginative and profound times like a mantra confessional comments from the off.
Reviews
Eddie Cockrell wrote in the journal Variety of 8 September 2007, the film was a " powerful work mood " that mix fact and fiction as well as definitely be entertaining. He was - unlike some earlier films by the director - not too long. The film associate techniques of silent film with elements of melodrama and remember B- movies of the 1940s.
Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal saw used the technique of " stream of consciousness " (stream - of-consciousness ).
A. O. Scott was in the New York Times, would be central to the " hallucinatory autobiography " the artist, " that Winnipeg declared him. "
Awards
Guy Maddin received a prize at the Toronto International Film Festival for Best Canadian Feature Film in 2007.
Background
The production cost was estimated at $ 600,000. The world premiere took place on 7 September 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival. On 8 February 2008 the film at the International Film Festival in Berlin was shown in 2008, which was followed by several other film festivals. He started in the cinemas of the USA on 13 June 2008 and played there until 22 June 2008, approximately 37,000 U.S. dollars.