My Winnipeg



Saturday, October 4th 2008, 5:00 pm

My Winnipeg

(Guy Maddin, Canada 2007, 80 min.)

A chronicle of the life of the wintry Canadian city, writer-director Maddin’s latest feature provocatively mixes the fictional and real to explore various aspects of Winnipeg life. Maddin’s self-described “docu-fantasia” on his Canadian hometown contains some of the strangest and most stirring imagery in any film of recent memory: dreamy sleepwalkers in the snow, a floating kielbasa, and horses encased in ice. Alternately hilarious and haunting, My Winnipeg is an enormously entertaining meditation on myth and memory.