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My Winnipeg Reviews

2008

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from 1452 members

Have you ever wanted to relive your childhood and do things differently? Guy Maddin attempts to answer that question in a hilariously wacky and profoundly touching goodbye letter to his childhood hometown. A documentary (or "docu-fantasia" as Maddin proclaims) that inventively blends local and personal history with surrealist .. Read more

Starring	Darcy Fehr, Cory Cassidy, Ann Savage, Amy Stewart
Director	Guy Maddin
Genres	Drama

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- This funny, idiosyncratic âdocu-fantasiaâ, as the filmmaker calls it, on the hometown of wacky and wonderful... read more on Time Out
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- - Wally Hammond
  - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:21
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- - 18
  - 4
  boring
  
  This must be the film I have rented and watched the least of. I watched about 20 minutes of boring monotone monologue with arty black and white flashed images ... read more »
  
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  - Wokingham
  - 21 Dec 2008 at 14:26
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- - 0
  - 0
  Postcards from Winnipeg
  
  I liked this- its poetic, arty, daft, tragic... more just one man showing us his scrapbook of memoirs of growing up in a cold, strange down-trodden city that is... read more »
  
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- - BeccyMalloi
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  - Kersey, Suffolk
  - 20 Jan 2011 at 11:21
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  - 3
  My Winnipeg
  
  Just awful - don't waste your time. We watched the first 15 minutes or so then gave up. Pass this one by.
  
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  - Scotland
  - 06 Mar 2010 at 16:47
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  - 7
  For Americans Only
  
  Great if you are from USA but tough going for others to understand concept.
  
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  - england
  - 21 Sep 2009 at 21:58
- - 1
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  My Winnipeg
  
  Not, mine, I'm afraid Needed some ruthless editing to reduce a rambling, personal memoire into a film that wouldn't tax the viewer's tolerance of ... read more »
  
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- - forestdweller
  - 35 reviews
  - Henley-on-Thames
  - 30 Aug 2009 at 12:36
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  Either Or
  
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  Either you will rent this film deliberately and sit through it or you will rent it accidentally and get bored after 20 minutes.
  
  It is not hilariously... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 13 Aug 2009 at 10:50
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  Unlike anything else...and a lot of snow
  
  If you like your cinema visual, arresting and (very)odd then you will enjoy 'My Winnipeg'.
  
  It does have a narrative,characters and a story ... read more »
  
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- - nettmrich
  - 2 reviews
  - London
  - 28 Jul 2009 at 14:40
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  Didnt't cut it
  
  This film was a bore - I could not get into it, tried though...I fell asleep a couple of times. I guess it's not always wonderful to see someone else's ... read more »
  
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  - Leyburn
  - 10 Jul 2009 at 20:27
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  Odd doc
  
  Arty black and white 'documentary' with flashes of Kenneth Anger. Visually compelling. Weird, but good weird and unexpectedly funny.
  
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- - AndrewandJonny
  - 3 reviews
  - Twyford
  - 10 Jun 2009 at 09:59
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  Artisitically weird but wonderful
  
  My Winnipeg was different! What we used to call an artistic film in my student days.
  
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  - Wokingham
  - 01 Jun 2009 at 22:09
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  Sleep Inducing
  
  I just could not get into this film at all. I'd read it was quite humourous but after about half an hour I'd have been scratching my head if I wasn'... read more »
  
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- - 18
  - 4
  boring
  
  This must be the film I have rented and watched the least of. I watched about 20 minutes of boring monotone monologue with arty black and white flashed images ... read more »
  
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  - Wokingham
  - 21 Dec 2008 at 14:26
- - 9
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  Sleepwalking Delight
  
  My Winnipeg is Guy Maddin's 'docu-fantasia' about growing up in his home town of Winnipeg, and his adult attempts to escape it. If you imagine a ... read more »
  
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  - Oxford, England
  - 08 Nov 2008 at 11:26
- - 7
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  what
  
  dont get this at all, was funny hearing him say winnipeg about 50 times in two minutes but it soon passed and was left with this turd in a glass of a film, ... read more »
  
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- - alan
  - leeds
  - 21 Apr 2009 at 20:53
- - 7
  - 3
  Self-indulgent bore
  
  This must be the most self-important, smug film i've ever seen. The director/narrator seems to think that growing up in a provincial town in the middle of ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 19 Dec 2008 at 23:09
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  Different
  
  This is a different approach to documentary making. However the flashing up of text captions is really, really irritating and unnecessary.
  
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  - Chipping Norton
  - 25 Jan 2009 at 16:14
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  ‘Winnipeg... Winnipeg... everything beneath layers of time, asphalt, and snow...’
  
  Guy Maddin’s docu-memory brims with odd trinkets of fact, fiction, myth and memory as gleaned from his home and childhood – or, in his own words, &#... read more »
  
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  - Stafford
  - 05 Dec 2008 at 21:44
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  My Winnipeg
  
  Not, mine, I'm afraid Needed some ruthless editing to reduce a rambling, personal memoire into a film that wouldn't tax the viewer's tolerance of ... read more »
  
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- - forestdweller
  - 35 reviews
  - Henley-on-Thames
  - 30 Aug 2009 at 12:36
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  Your Winnipeg - keep it!
  
  so disappointed - I had heard such good things about this, and I sat down eagerly to watch it - but could only stand about 20 minutes. God alone knows what the... read more »
  
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  - Manchester
  - 23 Jan 2009 at 00:15
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  My Winnipeg
  
  Hard to watch if your feeling a bit tired as it almost has the qualities of a lullaby in the repetition of the vocal as well as the imagery used, but definitly ... read more »
  
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  - Leeds
  - 30 Jan 2009 at 22:10
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  My Winnipeg
  
  A depressing black and white documentary about a place that I will NEVER visit filmed in what can only be described as a cross between psychedelic sepia and a ... read more »
  
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- - EvertonWestall
  - 1 review
  - Valley
  - 15 Feb 2009 at 19:49

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  Have you ever wanted to relive your childhood and do things differently? Guy Maddin attempts to answer that question in a hilariously wacky and profoundly touching goodbye letter to his childhood hometown. A documentary (or "docu-fantasia" as Maddin proclaims) that inventively blends local and ...