Thursday, October 17, 2002, 8pm
1992, Guy Maddin, Canada, 100 min, 35mm
Guy Maddin in person!
Like Edward Gorey’s mysterious books, Guy Maddin’s films are weirdly, unnervingly funny; one senses a deadly parody even if it is not clear exactly what is being made fun of. In Careful, set in some bogus European mountain country, characters tiptoe around a paper-maché landscape, as terrified of setting off avalanches as they are of their own incestuous desires. It is a quality of Maddin’s perversity to cast the stalwart brothers with actors barely younger than their chilly but voluptuous mother. (Jim Trainor)