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My Winnipeg

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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.
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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 Ray Pride Newcity An ostensible perambulation down the tracks of Maddin's tearaways from childhood onward on the Manitoba prairie, it’s an elusive tone poem compacted from all his idées fixes. Rated: 10/10 Feb 13, 2025 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 Read all reviews

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Jacob B Outstanding! Every time I watch this film I walk away feeling elated. It’s such a unique experience and incomparable to almost any other film (or is it a documentary told as a dream?). I’ve heard the term “dream-like” before to describe a film, but this one definitely deserves it. Indescribable; a must watch!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/06/25 Full Review Steven C I've spent a lot of time in Winnipeg over the years. This film was for me a reflection of the complicated relationship that I have with Winnipeg. The film is unique, one of a kind. I have never seen anything like it. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/31/24 Full Review 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 Read all reviews
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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
Jody Shapiro, Phyllis Lang
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