A gangster, deadbeat father returns home after a long absence. Confused, he makes an odyssey from the back of his home to the bedroom where his wife awaits, sick with cancer and grieving the death of her three other children.
Screenplay
Guy Maddin, George Toles
Production
Cinema Atelier Tovar Limited, Winnipeg
Phyllis Laing, Jody Shapiro, Jean du Toit
Festivals
2011 Toronto (Canada’s Top Ten)
2011 Atlantic Film, Halifax
2011 Cinefest Sudbury
2011 Whistler (Borsos Competition Prize for Best Canadian Narrative Feature)
Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin is a Winnipeg-based filmmaker with 10 features to his credit, including the cult-classic Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988); Archangel (1990), the ballet movie Dracula - Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002), The Saddest Music in the World (2003), Brand Upon the Brain! (2006), and My Winnipeg (2007).
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