Wri/Dir: Guy Maddin | Comedy drama 100’ 1992
The tales produced by Canadian director Guy Maddin often resemble silent films and his first in colour looked as if it had been tinted.
Resembling a fanciful parody both of German expressionist cinema and of Tyrolean mountain drama it tells a very tall tale – literally as in one scene the characters exchange vital information in which the altitude makes the air so thin their conversation is constantly interrupted by yawns – with a deceptively deadpan tone partly born of necessity since fear of starting avalanches prevents the citizens of Tolsbad from speaking above a whisper. @RichardChatten
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