The Forbidden Room

The Forbidden Room

By Guy Maddin

  • Genre: Foreign
  • Release Date: 2015-10-23
  • Advisory Rating: NR
  • Runtime: 1h 59min
  • Director: Guy Maddin
  • Production Company: ONF | NFB
  • Production Country: Canada
  • iTunes Price: USD 8.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
5.665/10
5.665
From 88 Ratings

Description

THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is Guy Maddin’s ultimate epic phantasmagoria.Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins (after a prologue on how to take a bath) with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen within.Suddenly, impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders into their company and tells histale of escaping from a fearsome clan of cave dwellers. From here, Maddin andco-director Evan Johnson take us high into the air, around the world, and into dreamscapes, spinning tales of amnesia, captivity, deception and murder,skeleton women and vampire bananas. Playing like some glorious meeting between Italo Calvino, Sergei Eisenstein and a perverted six year-old child, THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is Maddin's grand ode to lost cinema. Created with the help of master poet John Ashbery, the film features Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Maria de Medeiros, Jacques Nolot, Adèle Haenel, Amira Casar & Elina Löwensohn as a cavalcade of misfits, thieves and lovers, all joined in the joyful delirium of the kaleidoscopic viewing experience.

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  • A Surrealistic Delight

    5
    By David Arr.
    The Forbidden Room was among my Top 5 favorite films of 2015. And out of Guy Maddin’s 11 current feature films, especially after revisiting those I had already seen, it is definitely the one I’ve enjoyed most. If you enjoy The Forbidden Room and are unfamiliar with Maddin’s other works, do also check out: Cowards Bend the Knee (2003), The Saddest Music In the Word (2003), and Brand Upon the Brain! (2006).

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