Archangel

Section: Modern Classics

"Watching this often impenetrable spectacle, the brain is split between the frustrating task of keeping Maddin's story straight and a gaga admiration for his stylistic conviction." That's how critic J. Hoberman tried to start describing the second –"stylized, convoluted, visionary"– film by director Maddin; a mission as complicated as the mess provoked by the arrival of lieutenant John Boles to the small Russian town of Archangel, in the midst of the Bolshevik Revolution. Boles is back from a [...]

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