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.