Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin is a Réalisateur, Acteur, Sound engineer, Director of the photography, Canadian Scénariste , born the February 28th 1956 with Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada).

Biography

Guy Maddin, far from being predestined with the cinema, exerted initially the trade of counter clerk in a bank then of house painter. He launches out in 1986 in the realization of its first short film, The Dead Father, already any loan of what was going to be its esthetics, if original (even experimental) in spite of the abundance of its cinematograhic references, prégnantes in its films.

The Black and White, the image dirtied with the manner of the old bands of the Twenties, the semi-mythical decorations, become one of its trademarks. The subjects also have what to disconcert the spectator lambda: a treating film of the inceste in high-mountain for Carreful 'which is haunted by the myth of Oedipus and another of the organization of a contest of music by a baroness of the beer bottom of bowl with The Saddest Music in the World .

Without important budget, Guy Maddin successful to impose a work poetic, lyric, surrealist and personal, mixing a wild imagination with the deepest not-driven back desires. For its case, to see " And the cowards kneel… " its " fanstamée autobiography " . In 1995, Guy Maddin receives, for the whole of its work, the very coveted " Telluride Medal " , what accepted before him scenario writers such as Abel Gance, Francis Ford Coppola, Andrei Tarkovsky or Clint Eastwood.

Guy Maddin is always this child who arrived in the world of the adults with his Pandora's box, his humor devastator, his eguized direction of the tragedy, its revisits hallucinated myths and cinematograph, itself.

Catalog of films

1988 : The Dead Father
1988 : Bruise from the Gimli Hospital
1989: BBB
1990 : Archangel
1991 : Careful
1995 : Odilon Redon
1997: the Twilight of the nymphs of ice ( Twilight off the Ice Nymphs )
2000: The Heart off the World
2002: Dracula, pages drawn from the newspaper of a virgin ( Dracula: From pages has Virgin' S Diary )
2003: The Saddest music in the world
2003: And the cowards kneel… ( Cowards bend the knee )
2004: Sissy-Servant boy Slap-Party
2006: Of the holes in the head ( Brand upon the Brain! )

Quotations

There is a strong pressure of the public so that the image and the sound are with the service of a banal realism, a strong requirement to have films identical to the true life. But we live to it true life. When a book is read, one wants to be transported in places merveilleurx, and some of the most outstanding stories that us were ever told are those which us écourtion, children, blottis under covers… Why we would not exert this tradition of childhood in adult forms which would release these emotions that children feel. It is the goal which I set for all films that I want to make.

External bonds

Guy Maddin on Internet Movie Database.
EDdistribution: distribution of films of Guy Maddin in France

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