Source: film-grab.com Dismemberment, sex, incest, death, back-alley abortions; Guy Maddin’s underground fever dream captures the core of transgressive cinema. Cowards Bend the Knee ruptures traditional avant-garde with an hallucinatory, hypnotic edge that cuts through the psychoanalytical cinema of Deren, and the absurdist beauty of Lynch. Maddin’s cinema is a homage to the spiritual opera of experimental film and the manic anguish of German Expressionism.
Guy Maddin's 'Cowards Bend the Knee' Review.
Guy Maddin's 'Cowards Bend the Knee' Review.
Guy Maddin's 'Cowards Bend the Knee' Review.
Source: film-grab.com Dismemberment, sex, incest, death, back-alley abortions; Guy Maddin’s underground fever dream captures the core of transgressive cinema. Cowards Bend the Knee ruptures traditional avant-garde with an hallucinatory, hypnotic edge that cuts through the psychoanalytical cinema of Deren, and the absurdist beauty of Lynch. Maddin’s cinema is a homage to the spiritual opera of experimental film and the manic anguish of German Expressionism.