Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)

Directed by

Guy Maddin

Genre

speculative fiction film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man returns to a mysterious island where he gets entangled with a woman and a strange bird keeper. The story involves love, obsession, and a mythical creature.

dreamlikemelancholicvisually lushslow-burnfairy-talewhimsicalsurrealromantic

What happens

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is a 1997 fantasy romance film directed by Guy Maddin. The screenplay was written by George Toles and inspired by the novel Pan (1894) by Knut Hamsun, with an additional literary touchstones being the short story "La Vénus d'Ille" (1837) by Prosper Mérimée. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs was Maddin's second feature film in colour and his first shot in 35 mm, on a budget of $1.5 million. As seen in Noam Gonick's documentary Waiting for Twilight, Maddin was dissatisfied with the filmmaking process due to creative interference from his producers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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