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  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • The Film Company
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • The Film Company
  • 1 h 35 m
Brand Upon the Brain!

Summary Brand Upon the Brain! In which the shocking truth is finally revealed about young Guy Maddin and his hellish childhood on a remote island, under the hyper-watchful eye of a crazed mother hellbent on restoring her youth and a diabolically distant scientist-father, proprietors of a mom-and-pop orphanage they surreptitiously operate within ...

Directed By: Guy Maddin

Written By: Louis Negin, George Toles, Guy Maddin

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • The Film Company
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • The Film Company
  • 1 h 35 m

Brand Upon the Brain!

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
79
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
8.0
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Summary Brand Upon the Brain! In which the shocking truth is finally revealed about young Guy Maddin and his hellish childhood on a remote island, under the hyper-watchful eye of a crazed mother hellbent on restoring her youth and a diabolically distant scientist-father, proprietors of a mom-and-pop orphanage they surreptitiously operate within ...

Directed By: Guy Maddin

Written By: Louis Negin, George Toles, Guy Maddin

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
79
93% Positive
14 Reviews
7% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
79
93% Positive
14 Reviews
7% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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88
A feverishly imaginative Freudian vampire film from Guy Maddin, is like a silent-movie serial by Louis Feuillade or an improbable collaboration between writer Oscar Wilde and photographer Man Ray.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
88
The film is a singular achievement.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
83
This much is guaranteed: You won't leave thinking you've seen the like before.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
80
The result is giddy, exciting and hilarious, not quite like any artistic experience you've ever had.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
75
How often are psychosexual lunacy and classic cinema combined so fiendishly well?
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
70
Billed as a silent film, Guy Maddin's Brand Upon the Brain! is actually closer to a live theatrical event -- a feature-length motion picture screened with the accompaniment of a live orchestra, plus Foley artists, sound effects technicians and assorted vocalists, too. Together, they provide the elaborate soundscape for a typically frenetic, Maddin-esque amalgam of the autobiographical, Freudian and willfully absurd.
By Scott Foundas FULL REVIEW
60
Not to discredit its wild artistry by saying the gimmick's the prize, but . . . the gimmick's the prize. Without all the hoopla, there simply isn't enough variation to this stylized fever-dream to justify its fatiguing running time, nor to call it anything less than predictably Maddin–esque.
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Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
8.0
75% Positive
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25% Mixed
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Production Company The Film Company
Release Date May 9, 2007
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.eddistribution.com/film.php?id_film=72
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Awards

Chlotrudis Awards
• 1 Nomination
Village Voice Film Poll
• 1 Nomination
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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