My Winnipeg

This film (drama)Also known asMy Winnipeg，is aCanadaProducerwomen sex，At2007Released in year 。The dialogue language isEnglish，Current Douban rating8.1(For reference only)。

The town of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, sounds distant and unfamiliar, but under the lens of Guy Maddin, it becomes an organism of nostalgia. Through dreamlike narration and psychedelic black-and-white visuals, the director personally guides us through the history, nature, and cultural traces of his hometown, along with its mysterious legends. While constructing a narrative and editing documentary segments, the director's lyrical longing and fanciful thoughts about his hometown infuse the film with a sense of mystery and nostalgia that seems to transcend time, feeling both otherworldly and intimately warm. Modern Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - Director Guy Maddin sits alone on a train, preparing to leave his black-and-white hometown of Winnipeg, and his mother, who oversees his every move. Along the way, he reminisces about various stories from his homeland in a half-dream, half-awake state, recalling some cherished buildings and snippets of his childhood with family. Comments Canadian director Guy Maddin's recent films have had a touch of autobiography. “Cowards Bend the Knees” (2003) features himself as the protagonist in a hockey story, while his previous feature “Brand Upon the Brain!” (2006) tells a bizarre detective tale with him at its center. This time, he bases his film on his childhood and the history of Winnipeg, creating an imaginative autobiographical film. Or, as the cinematographer and producer Jody Shapiro and the director said in an interview, it might be more appropriate to call it a “docu-fantasia.” Guy Maddin's signature style of silent film fragments is still very much present here, but this approach becomes a practical and fitting form of expression, combined with impressionistic, super-fast editing and the director's incessant inner monologue to convey the protagonist Guy Maddin (played by Darcy Fehr)'s chaotic thoughts and complex, fragmented memories. The indistinct effects of black-and-white film and fragments aptly match the stark, snowy, and colorless cityscape of Winnipeg. In the story of “My Winnipeg,” various recurring elements seem like a textbook of psychological analysis, such as childhood memories that linger in the mind and the son's contradictory relationship of love and fear towards his mother. Those fleeting subtitle cards appear like repressed old memories, while the protagonist's obsession with the confluence of rivers and his mother's legs reflects a fixation that has been hidden in his heart. However, if one were to analytically and seriously dissect this film, they might overlook that it is, in fact, a very interesting, poignant, and creatively rich work that deliberately blurs the line between reality and fiction. On one hand, the film depicts Winnipeg, a remote city with unusually cold weather, as a poetically rich place filled with dreamers; on the other hand, it weaves historical events into personal memories, projecting personal emotional connections onto buildings of documentary value. The hockey rink of his father and his mother's hair salon are indeed places of significance, and even the town's celebrities become subjects of nostalgic focus.