MY WINNIPEG

**Ends Thursday, August 28th**

"The finest, funniest, saddest film I've seen in Toronto or at any festival this year."
- Richard Corliss, TIME MAGAZINE

"A Great Film! It is outrageous, illogical, hilarious, and imaginative, in short, it's Guy Maddin in top form." - Howard Feinstein, FILMMAKER MAGAZINE

Have you ever wanted to relive your childhood and do things differently? Acclaimed director Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, TALES FROM GIMLI HOSPITAL) casts B-movie icon Ann Savage (star of the 1945 film noir classic DETOUR) as his domineering mother in an attempt to answer that question in MY WINNPEG, a hilariously wacky and profoundly touching goodbye letter to his childhood hometown.
A documentary (or "docu-fantasia" as Maddin proclaims) that inventively blends local and personal history with surrealist images and metaphorical myths, the film covers everything from the fire at the local park which led to a frozen lake of distressed horse heads to pivotal and factually heightened scenes from Maddin's own childhood, all laced with startling emotional honesty, offbeat humor and intense originality.
MY WINNIPEG is Maddin's most personal film and a truly unique cinematic experience, winning the Best Canadian Film Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and snagging the opening night selection slot of the Berlin Film Festival's Forum.

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