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      My Winnipeg

      Released Jun 13, 2008 1h 20m Documentary Comedy Drama List
      95% 92 Reviews Tomatometer 77% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin conducts a personal tour of Winnipeg, Manitoba, the town where he grew up and still lives, in a film he calls a "docu-fantasia." By combining archival footage and interviews, dreamlike camera work and recreated scenes -- including several with actress Ann Savage playing the part of Maddin's mother -- the filmmaker builds a portrait of Winnipeg that manages to be historical, intimate, surreal, entertaining and entirely his own. Read More Read Less
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      My Winnipeg is a charmingly irreverent 'docu-fantasy' from the unpredictable mind of Guy Maddin.

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      Judy Berman Tiny Mix Tapes More an abstract hallucination than a photo-realist portrait, My Winnipeg would be out of place on the "documentary" shelf at the video store. But it deserves prime placement in the Guy Maddin canon. Rated: 4/5 Dec 6, 2018 Full Review Noel Murray The Dissolve Maddin mixes personal reminiscences with elaborate fantasies of Masonic rituals and collectivist brothels, to construct a vision of Winnipeg as a city of sleepwalkers. Rated: 4/5 Jan 26, 2015 Full Review Ben Kenigsberg Time Out Rated: 4/5 Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Beautiful, strange, and endlessly intriguing, there's a nostalgic bite to the film which lasts well after its bizarre visual poetry subsides from view. Rated: 4/5 Oct 29, 2020 Full Review Mattie Lucas From the Front Row Occasionally uneven and often opaque and aimless, but it is clear Maddin knows what he's doing. And by the time it is over, he has transported us not just to Winnipeg, but into the heart and soul of an artist. Rated: 3/4 Jul 7, 2019 Full Review Brian D. Johnson Maclean's Magazine There's some genuine archival history threaded through the fantasy. Dec 16, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

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      David F This is a wild autobiographical documentary about the filmmaker's hometown - Winnipeg. It's loopy, phantasmagorical, and spontaneous. This is personal filmmaking at its finest. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/31/23 Full Review AB L Maddin effectively blurs the lines between truth, fiction, mockumentary, psychological examination, fable, and art project into something totally unique. One of the great movies of the 00s Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/31/23 Full Review Audience Member My Winnipeg is an indie film through and through. This is the type of film that's best enjoyed while half drunk with some boujee friends at an art event where cheap wine and laughter soften the awkwardness of this films deliverance. With that being said I can't hate on My Winnipeg seeing as I was born and raised here. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member A charming dreamlike movie shot in hazy black and white. Indeed, director and actor Guy Madden tells us early on that Winnipeg has the highest incidence of sleepwalking in the world. It might be fact or it might be fiction as is the case in much of the movie. Madden is portrayed as sleeping on a train hoping to escape the city even as he narrates his memories and impression of it (maybe fact, maybe fiction, mixed in varying degrees. Winnipeg comes across as a hapless place to be, and I want to move there. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member It's worse than that Carson Clay movie in Mr. Bean's Holiday. I would rather Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member An awesome, inventive, and unpredictable movie. Like nothing I've seen before. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin conducts a personal tour of Winnipeg, Manitoba, the town where he grew up and still lives, in a film he calls a "docu-fantasia." By combining archival footage and interviews, dreamlike camera work and recreated scenes -- including several with actress Ann Savage playing the part of Maddin's mother -- the filmmaker builds a portrait of Winnipeg that manages to be historical, intimate, surreal, entertaining and entirely his own.
      Director
      Guy Maddin
      Producer
      Michael Burns
      Screenwriter
      Guy Maddin, George Toles
      Distributor
      IFC First Take
      Genre
      Documentary, Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jun 13, 2008, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Nov 18, 2016
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $156.6K
      Runtime
      1h 20m
      Sound Mix
      Dolby Digital