My Winnipeg (2007)

Directed by

Guy Maddin

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 112 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A surreal mockumentary about the city of Winnipeg as seen through the filmmaker's own memories and fantasies. It blends personal history with local folklore and staged scenes that blur the line between reality and imagination.

dreamlikesurrealmetawhimsicallucidnostalgicabsurdistunsettlingcerebral

What happens

My Winnipeg is a 2007 Canadian film directed and written by Guy Maddin with dialogue by George Toles. Described by Maddin as a "docu-fantasia", that melds "personal history, civic tragedy, and mystical hypothesizing", the film is a surrealist mockumentary about Winnipeg, Maddin's home town. A New York Times article described the film's unconventional take on the documentary style by noting that it "skates along an icy edge between dreams and lucidity, fact and fiction, cinema and psychotherapy". My Winnipeg began when Maddin was commissioned by the Documentary Channel, and originally titled Love Me, Love My Winnipeg. Maddin's producer told him "Don't give me the frozen hellhole everyone knows that Winnipeg is" so Maddin cast Darcy Fehr in the role of "Guy Maddin" and structured the documentary around a metafictional plot that mythologizes the city and Maddin's autobiography. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Fugue Nefesh (2007)
• Let's All Hate Toronto (2007)
• A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman (2007)
• Hydro-Lévesque (2008)
• The Climb (2007)
• 18000 Dead in Gordon Head (2001)
• Minushi (2007)
• Happiness Bound (2007)