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Pre-2020 Film Reviews
Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (1988)
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Guy Maddin’s debut feature sets the tone for his career—recreating the aesthetics of silent and early talkie movies, spiked with Freudian surrealism and absurdist humor—though his subsequent movies benefited from melodramatic plotting that is absent from the episodic ‘Gimli.’ Although highly accomplished, it’s one of Maddin’s most surreal movies, and therefore not the easiest entry point to his world.
