Careful
Directed by Guy Maddin
1992Feature100 minCanada14A
Guy Maddin's early masterpiece, set in an Alpine village where everyone must whisper to avoid avalanches, while forbidden passions threaten to bring the mountain down.
Synopsis
Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents —adult, child and animal!—must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences. Bathed in lurid, luminescent tints, Careful resembles a vintage melodrama from another planet—something that could only emerge from the singular mind of Maddin.
The director
Guy Maddin is a Winnipeg filmmaker whose films, from Tales from the Gimli Hospital and Careful to The Saddest Music in the World and My Winnipeg, are instantly recognizable. They are known for their obsessive use of archaic film styles, melodramatic excess and personal mythology.
Press
“Uniquely weird, subtly macabre, and utterly compelling.”
On screens
Already played at 8 cinemas in Ottawa, Bologna, Halifax, Winnipeg, Nelson, Toronto, Montreal, Nottingham.
