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  • 1993
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Video
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 1993
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Video
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary In the Alpine village of Tolzbad in the 1800s, the townsfolk talk quietly and restrain their movements lest they incur avalanches. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction...

Directed By: Guy Maddin

Written By: George Toles, Guy Maddin

  • 1993
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Video
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 1993
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Video
  • 1 h 40 m

Careful

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary In the Alpine village of Tolzbad in the 1800s, the townsfolk talk quietly and restrain their movements lest they incur avalanches. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction...

Directed By: Guy Maddin

Written By: George Toles, Guy Maddin

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Canadian director Guy Maddin is an artist supreme - he steals with a liberal flourish and with enough sheer imagination that his previous films (Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Archangel) are often described as boldly original. Careful, his latest offering, is no exception - it's an honours graduate from the same school of dusted-off originality. [10 Oct 1992]
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW
75
If you like the early work of David Lynch you should definitely check this out; Maddin's films are every bit as beautiful and in certain respects a lot more sophisticated.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW
75
Although longer and more complex than Gimli, thanks to a fine script by Maddin and George Toles, Careful is equally claustrophobic. The director's continued use of minimal lighting, deliberately phony-looking studio sets, and sterile overdubs perpetuates a feeling of blatant manufacture which undercuts any disturbing themes.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
60
If the central performances in Careful approached the earnest intensity of some of its early-1930's inspirations, the movie would probably be twice as funny.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
60
While the deliberately amateurish, stilted acting seems at odds with the fruity dialogue, Maddin's intention is to subdue every aspect of his peculiar dreamscape; acting, decor, costuming, cinematography and sound recording remain equal components. No one element predominates or upsets the director's carefully controlled chaos.
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For all the deadpan laughs it delivers, Careful is too self-conscious, too stoned on its own invention and technique to merit sustained attention. It's a marvelous conceit, but ultimately a thin one. [08 Oct 1993, p.C3]
By Edward Guthmann FULL REVIEW
40
Too strange for its own good, Careful is less interesting as a film than it is as a Canadian cinematic anomaly.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW

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Production Company The Canada Council, The Canada Manitoba Cultural Industries Development Office (CIDO), The Greg & Tracy Film Ministry, The Manitoba Arts Council, Téléfilm Canada
Release Date Aug 27, 1993
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Cinéfest Sudbury
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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