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I really saw no redeeming factors in it at all. I am a fan of Ingmar Bergmann and Fellini, which it seems they attempted to emulate, but failed miserably.
1/10
6.2.2005 -
phreddbb@ - age: 50+
Canadian writer/director Guy Madden portrays his homeland as frigid and depressing, a place where any excuse for beer guzzling will be the day's entertainment. Nothing some American Pizzazz can't fix. Critically lauded by Madden's immediate family and members of the media who wish to say they knew him 'when', this essentially black & white film is proof positive that, for some films, two colours is one colour too many. Thank goodness for Isabella Rossilini.
3/10
26.5.2004 -
mj_brown@ - age: 50+
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Really creative and really strange without ever getting so strange that you stop caring what's happening. Great characters and acting.
10/10
23.5.2004 -
lanidracl@ - age: 36-49
Ok. So here's the deal and why you could care about this movie. It's what it's ABOUT that does matter. The saddest music in the world is the music of competition. Unfeeling, unpre-meditated, insensitive greed. A numbing thing - the world in which we are alienated from art, beauty and humanity. The song is about you. This is a beautifully, painfully put together movie - brilliant because it is so so original, and yet it works. My feeling is that it's a 9 though! We have yet to see this guy's true masterpiece. He's got a little more to give us, but he's damn close and he's chosen a damn hard road to reach us too! My hat goes off to him big time!!!
9/10
20.5.2004 -
dizzybuckteeth@ - age: 50+
Postmodern pastiche of a very tedious kind. The "absurd and the bizarre" do not, on their own, make for good cinema. A successful film need not be straightforwardly realistic, but it should give its audience some reason to care about what's happening on screen. Wish I'd walked out of this one.
2/10
19.5.2004 -
herbert@ - age: 36-49
One of the worst film I've ever seen. Usually, unintentionally badly made films were entertaining, except this one because it might have been intentionally made to be awful. Poorly focused, B&W with cheesy dialogue made to feel like the old '40's films but it comes across as feeling cheap and amateurish.
1/10
18.5.2004 -
phaedrus1@ - age: 36-49
I loved this movie. It's quirkiness made it very original and amusing. I like the art deco kind of setting and that it's Canadian! Go see this if you like strange unique films.
9/10
17.5.2004 -
gcmcinc@ - age: 13-17
Truly brillant and original!
10/10
9.5.2004 -
josephinebono@ - age: 36-49
If you like the absurd and the bizarre, you'll definitely like this film. Set in Depression-era Winnipeg, the film has the look and feel of an early 30s film, with a healthy dose of silent era techniques. Don't try and understand this film. Just sit back and enjoy. Bring your sense of humour, and leave your sense of logic outside.
7/10
3.5.2004 -
codogno@ - age: 36-49
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Bizzare and strangely boring with plot twists that should have been rewritten, although I loved the "red violin" from this artist, this movie needs more work, a few laughs but generally a poor film, wait for dvd, don't bother with going to cinema, my wife found it strange.
6/10
1.5.2004 -
hawaiianembassy@ - age: 26-35
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