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Brand upon the Brain! (2006) is an avant-garde silent film directed by Guy Maddin and shot in Seattle with local actors. Maddin directed the film from a script co-written with George Toles, shooting over nine days and editing over three months, on an estimated budget of $40,000.
Sep 24, 2008 · Brand Upon the Brain!: Directed by Guy Maddin. With Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Maya Lawson, Jake Morgan-Scharhon. Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
May 17, 2007 · Guy Maddin's new film "Brand Upon the Brain!" exists in the world Maddin has built by hand over several features that seem to be trying to reinvent the silent cinema. Flickering, high-contrast black-and-white images, shot in 8mm, tell a phantasmagoric story that could be a collaboration between Edgar Allan Poe and Salvador Dali.
Brand upon the Brain! In the weird and wonderful supercinematic world of Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin, personal memory collides with movie lore for a radical sensory overload.
A bizarre, compelling spectacle that invests its absurd plot with heartfelt sincerety, Brand Upon the Brain! is a unique cinematic experience. Guy returns to his childhood home on an...
Brand Upon the Brain! is silent expressionism, horror, and romance thrown into a blender, accelerated to barely-controlled mania. It's a movie that needs an exclamation point in its title because it's bursting at the seams, filled with energy and just excited to exist.
Whatever are young "Guy Maddin's" parents really up to in their lighthouse home/orphanage on a chilly remote island? Overbearing Mother tracks her son's every move, bellowing for him to come home over the "Aerophone" just as something interesting is about to happen! And poor Sis, his older...
