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Bracketed by a fictitious instructional film on the subject of bathing, Guy Maddin’s (My Winnipeg) latest phantasmagoria sees a mysterious woodsman board a doomed submarine, the same lumberjack infiltrate a layer of cave-dwelling thieves, Udo Kier lobotomized to stifle his fetishistic obsession, and a virgin sacrifice thwarted on the edge of a volcano. And that’s not even the first thirty minutes of The Forbidden Room, a wildly and comically surreal, absurdist exploration of man’s darker desires—and flights of imagination. Shot at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Centre PHI in Montreal—in studios open to the public—Maddin’s signature experimental epic is that rare example of silent cinema-inspired, contemporary montage filmmaking and a grandiose ode to classical Hollywood’s least reputable margins.
Directors Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson 2015 Canada 120 minutes NR (nudity) DCP
