Directed by Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson | Canada | 2015 | Fiction | 130 mins
Winner of Bildrausch Ring of Film Award, 2015
Film Source: Kino Lorber
Guy Maddin is a singular figure in today’s cinematic landscape. For 30 years he has been creating distinctive, wildly inventive films that feel as much discovered as they do made, existing simultaneously outside of and at the heart of cinematic tradition. His latest, The Forbidden Room, is another spirited phantasmagoria – a heady, hearty brew of silent and underground filmmaking tropes, pulp fictions, formal experimentalism, camp sensibility and nitrate-induced psychedelia. Concerning a woodcutter who mysteriously appears on a submarine, Maddin’s digressive tale weaves together multiple storylines and disparate storytellers. Endlessly innovative and often quite beautiful, The Forbidden Room is a dream worth having.