The Heart of the World
Summary:
This six-minute short from Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin is an ingenious pastiche of silent-film tropes in the service of what Maddin calls a "subliminal melodrama." Set in a dystopian future as imagined by a 1920s Soviet filmmaker, the movie is of a venerable genre -- a love story (in this case, a love triangle) played out against the backdrop of a catastrophic event. The hyper... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Leslie Bais
Caelum Vatnsdal
Shaun Balbar
Hryhory Yulyanovitch Klymkyiev
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Review:
Minute for minute, The Heart of the World serves up some of the most delirious filmmaking of the young century. Enthralling, original, and drop-dead funny, this lightning-quick short -- ostensibly about the end of the world -- is a stirring corrective to banal disaster pictures like Armageddon and Deep Impact. Directed by the obstinately a... Continue >>
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