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Brand Upon the Brain!
Directed by
Guy Maddin
Not Rated
2006
1h 38m
Drama
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7.3
91%
88%
6.6
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Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
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Cast of Brand Upon the Brain!
Isabella Rossellini
Interlocuter
Erik Steffen Maahs
Grown-up Guy Maddin
Sullivan Brown
Young Guy Maddin
Gretchen Krich
Mother
Maya Lawson
Sis
Jake Morgan-Scharhon
Chance Hale / Wendy Hale
Andrew Loviska
Savage Tom
Kellan Larson
Neddie
Todd Jefferson Moore
Father
Megan Murphy
Murderous Sister
Cathleen O'Malley
Young Mother
Clayton Corzatte
Old Father
Susan Corzatte
Old Mother
Annette Toutonghi
Murderous Sister
Guy Maddin
Director / Writer
Louis Negin
Writer
George Toles
Writer
Joy Fairfield
Co-Producer
Jody Shapiro
Executive Producer
A.J. Epstein
Executive Producer
Brand Upon the Brain! Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Chase Hutchinson
It's an audaciously experimental, often terrifying and always evocative encapsulation of memory that boldly dances between genres while remaining entirely its own.
Bay Area Reporter
David Lamble
One of the best things about Brand Upon the Brain! is that it doesn't set off that dreaded snooze alarm...
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The director's form of genial cinematic dementia is guaranteed not to be to all tastes at all times, but those who are looking for something strange and different will feel right at home.
Stop Smiling
Lawrence Levi
It's a bizarre bildungsroman cum scare flick, with Mom as the chief villain -- Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate by way of Psycho. And like so many of Maddin's films, it's oddly and uniquely affecting.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
For me it captures Maddin at his loopiest and most inspired.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Narrated by Isabella Rossellini and enhanced by Jason Staczek's superb score, this is characteristically intense and, unlike most of Maddin's silent-movie models, frenetically edited.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
No matter how much the director disguises the tale in flickery symbolism, the emotions feel painful and personal.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Brand Upon the Brain! is like no other movie you're likely to see this year -- or any other year. It won't be to everyone's taste. But for those who like their cinema weird, it doesn't get any weirder or more oddly fascinating than this.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
... a feverishly imaginative Freudian vampire film ...
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
An astonishing film: weird, obsessed, drawing on subterranean impulses, hypnotic.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The film is a singular achievement.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Succeeds at one and the same time in functioning as both a celebration and a deconstruction of the conscious and unconscious glories of silent movies through the barely 30 years of their existence at the beginning of the 20th century.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
A typically spastic, experimental mix of old-fashioned movie effects and overheated Freudian melodrama.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A surprisingly frightening and affecting film, launching itself from vertiginous peaks into shadowy hollows.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin pushes his love of lurid melodrama to the limit in his latest demented treat, Brand Upon the Brain!
Slant Magazine
Fernando F. Croce
Avant-garde to the last shuttering edit, Guy Maddin's signature aesthetic is also, paradoxically enough, a classical fusion of style and content.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Written by Mr. Maddin and George Toles, his longtime screenwriting partner, the story builds on familiar types and narrative conventions that, over time, are all but obscured by layer upon layer of idiosyncratic detail.
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
A drolly phantasmagoric, silent-film spectacle in which Freud meets Feuillade and Frankenstein! Not to discredit its wild artistry by saying the gimmick's the prize, but... the gimmick's the prize.
Variety
Scott Foundas
A typically frenetic, Maddin-esque amalgam of the autobiographical, Freudian and willfully absurd.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
The inimitable Guy Maddin outdoes himself with psyche-probing silent film.
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