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Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin 2006)

Posted on February 27 at 14.56, 2007 by Eric Mahleb

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I hereby demand a cap on the length of experimental films. 30 minutes should about do it, 45 minutes at the most. But not 98 minutes. Not in 12 chapters. Guy Maddin’s latest, Brand Upon the Brain!, says it all in the first 3 or 4 chapters. It’s all déjà vu after that, even if the corny one-liners keep you smiling occasionally.

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One Response to “Brand Upon the Brain!”

  1. La Antena - Quiet Please - Cinema Futures by Eric Mahleb Says:
    October 17, 2008 at 15.02

    [...] Yet, for all of its visual candy and dystopian intrigue, La Antena feels a tad flat. Like Guy Maddin’s Brand Upon the Brain, its lightness of content and the weaknesses of its screenplay become exposed once the initial visual intrigue begins to wear off. At that point, the viewing experience becomes superficial, a mere exercise in visual stimulation, with the content itself bringing little reward. [...]

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