Brand upon the Brain! (2006)

Original title

Brand Upon the Brain!

Directed by

Guy Maddin

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 65 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy returns to a remote island lighthouse orphanage run by his domineering mother. He uncovers strange experiments and a long-lost romance.

dreamlikewhimsicalmelancholicarchaicsurrealtheatricalvisually stylized

What happens

Brand upon the Brain! is a 2006 avant-garde silent film directed by Guy Maddin and shot in Seattle with local actors. Maddin directed the film from a script co-written with George Toles, shooting over nine days and editing over three months, on an estimated budget of $40,000. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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