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Completed - ENGLISH - Drama - 130 minutes

Log Line

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Guy MADDIN, Evan JOHNSON
Cast : Geraldine CHAPLIN, Caroline DHAVERNAS, Roy DUPUIS

Synopsis

If Canadian wunderkind Guy Maddin is Winnipeg’s own living film legend, THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is his ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins (after a prologue on how to take a bath) with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen within. Suddenly, impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders into their company and tells his tale of escaping from a fearsome clan of cave dwellers. From here, Maddin takes us high into the air, around the world, and into dreamscapes, spinning tales of amnesia, captivity, deception and murder, skeleton women and vampire bananas. Playing like some glorious meeting between Italo Calvino, Sergei Eisenstein and a perverted six year-old child, THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is Maddin’s grand ode to lost cinema.

Production

Country(ies) : CANADA

CANADA MÉTROPOLE FILMS
CANADA MONGREL MEDIA I
FRANCE Dec 16, 2015 ED DISTRIBUTION
GERMANY Apr 07, 2016 ARSENAL - INSTI
MEXICO Nov 06, 2015 INTERIOR 13 CIN
NETHERLAND Jul 25, 2016 EYE FILMMUSEUM
UNITED KIN Dec 11, 2015 THUNDERBIRD REL
USA Oct 01, 2015 MUBI, INC
USA Oct 01, 2015 KINO LORBER INC


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Festivals and Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2015 New Frontier
Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2015 Forum
Toronto - TIFF 2015 Wavelengths


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