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The Forbidden Room
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than what they bargained for when they mysteriously encounter a never-before-seen woodsman.
1972, Québec, Canada
26 May 1960, Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France
31 August 1943, Marciac, Gers, France
5 February 1946, Sturmer, Essex, England, UK
1 January 1989, Paris, France
23 April 1944, Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France
15 May 1978, Montréal, Québec, Canada
1 May 1971, London, England, UK
14 October 1944, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
31 July 1944, Santa Monica, California, USA
24 July 1986, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
12 December 1964, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
28 August 1959, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
March 17, 2016
Canadian iconoclast Guy Maddin has been making strange, surreal films that evoke the images and storytelling traditions of silent movies for decades. The Forbidden Room (2015)... is like a compendium of his obsessions and cinematic fetishes.
February 24, 2016
Dense and lacking the playful quality of his more straightforward work, this represents a new multi-narrative direction for Maddin.
March 03, 2016
Whilst The Forbidden Room is overlong and messy, it is still a lightning bolt of creativity from one of the most enigmatic and compelling filmmakers working today.
May 08, 2017
The film doesn't disappear, of course. It just folds into itself, again and again, ultimately transforming into an ecstatic, enclosed, gloriously self-indulgent expression of pure filmic desire.
March 14, 2016
The bad part is that at over two hours long the film is not that good.
November 06, 2015
Maddin's singular brand of cinematic reinvention goes a little over the top.
January 04, 2017
An intense and explosive sensory experience; An elegant delirium that injects vigor into contemporary cinema by returning faith to the power of the imagination. [Full review in Spanish]
February 18, 2016
What Maddin & Co. have invented here ranges from Freudian horror to childish naughtiness.
October 09, 2015
[A] narcotized fever dream ...
October 08, 2015
The film is more than just spot-on parody.
November 24, 2015
Enjoying this film will depend on your state of mind. Indeed, "The Forbidden Room" is a state of mind unto itself.
December 03, 2015
Guy Maddin delivers another of his wild and whimsical fantasies, tinged with camp and couched in the film grammar of silent cinema.
