Guy Maddin - Careful (1992) :: top Movie Channel

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If art-school preciosity were doled out in bottles, the name on the label would be Guy Maddin. A campy fusspot who tricks out unengaging yarns with silent-movie gimmicks and tons of bric-a-brac, Maddin has made a name for himself as a collagist "visionary," a picker and sifter through the archaeological remains of the Dawn of Cinema.

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Guy Maddin’s dizzily delirious 1992 film, Careful, has been called a pro-repression fable, a masterpiece of deadpan comic timing, a period piece evoking a time and place that never existed, and a Ricola ad gone horribly, horribly wrong.1 Utterly unique and yet evocative of myriad influences, Careful is a truly bizarre concoction created from the plundered relics of cinematic history and the dark attics of dreams.

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This is an extraordinarily difficult film to give a fair rating to, because there's nothing else quite like it outside the Guy Maddin universe, and it's comfortably my favourite of the films within it. I initially thought of giving it a perfect 10, just for the hell of it, but restrained myself on the grounds that the film's second half, though never less than wonderfully strange, was noticeably more muted by comparison with the passionately overwrought melodramatics of the first.