My Winnipeg is a feature film

Feature film

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 directed by Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin, OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba...

. Starring Ann Savage, the film is a surrealist-inflected pseudo-documentary about Winnipeg

Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...

, Maddin's home town. Blending legend, history, and a biting critique of the city's treatment of its architectural past with fantasy and more personal matters, the film explores issues of local attachment, culminating in an explanation of why Maddin continues to live in the city of his birth.

Critical reception

The film received highly positive reviews from critics. As of August 22, 2011, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes

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 reported that 94% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 80 reviews — with the consensus that the film “is a charmingly irreverent ‘docu-fantasy’ from the unpredictable mind of Guy Maddin”. Metacritic

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 reported the film had an average score of 84 out of 100, based on 20 reviews — indicating “universal acclaim”. Critic Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

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 gave the film a perfect 4/4 star rating and placed it in his Top Ten Films of the Decade (2000–2009).

Top ten lists

The film appeared on several critics’ top ten lists of the best films of 2008.

• 3rd - Richard Corliss
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  , TIME magazine
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• 4th - Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle
• 5th - Rick Groen , The Globe and Mail
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• 6th - Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle
• 7th - Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail
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• 10th - Noel Murray, The A.V. Club
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Awards

• 2007: Toronto International Film Festival
  Toronto International Film Festival
  The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...
  
   - Best Canadian Feature Film
• 2008: San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards
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   - Best Documentary
• 2008: Toronto Film Critics Association Awards - Best Canadian Film
• 2009: International Urban Film Festival, Tehran
  Tehran
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  - Best Experimental Documentary

External links

• Official Website
• Interview with Guy Maddin at Cinefantastique Online
• Review by the New York Sun
• Review by Regards