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Yeah, I'm dying to see the Heart of the World. Apparently he actually shot a feature's worth of footage and then (he claims) was forced by his backers to compress it into a six minute short.
Careful definitely has some none-too-subtle Freudian stuff in it - in the documentary that's included on the DVD his writer claims that they deliberately set out to make a pro-incest film. Also, in part of another documentary I caught on IFC Maddin says that all of his films are love stories at heart - albeit love stories in which the characters' love tends to bring out the worst in them.
Really, that's the quality that I find so astounding in his films, despite their incredibly bizarre and transparent artifice he manages to tell stories that hearken to classic tragedies but remain grounded in this very human, almost banal realm that is weirdly able to relate to. In Careful the characters constantly warn eachother not to show an improper amount of affection, or to underdress or set the table improperly but at the same time make it painfully clear that their attempts at restraint are doomed to fail for in the village where the film is set "lovers' voices carry for miles and can be heard by all (sic)."
I haven't seen Archangel yet, but did you know that it's actually based on a real event that occurred after WWI ? |
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