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Archangel
Info
Year:
1990
Original Title:
Archangel
País:
Director:
Color:
B&W
Format:
35 mm
Duration:
90 min
Synopsis
"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 war nobody knows has ended and from losing, apart from a leg, his beloved Iris. He meets Veronkha, whom he mistakes for Iris and who, in turn, mistakes him for his husband Philbin, an amnesiac who doesn't remember her and thinks he's living a honeymoon every night. No plot outline does justice to this deadpan melodrama, to this lugubrious comedy that pays tribute to the partial talkies of the late 20s, that reminds of Von Sternberg as well as the cinema of the brothers Quay; of Lynch's Eraserhead as well as Eisenstein. And that seems to take place inside a snow globe, only during an earthquake.
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