My Winnipeg

My Winnipeg (2008)

The truth is relative.

The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg, is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin’s film. Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this work, conjuring a city as delightful as it is fearsome.

Date of release
2008-06-13
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (117)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Director
Guy Maddin

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $316.7K
  • Budget: $500K
  • Earned 0.6× its budget
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film

My Winnipeg is a 2007 Canadian film directed and written by Guy Maddin with dialogue by George Toles. Described by Maddin as a "docu-fantasia", that melds "personal history, civic tragedy, and mystical hypothesizing", the film is a surrealist mockumentary about Winnipeg, Maddin's home town. A New York Times article described the film's unconventional take on the documentary style by noting that it "skates along an icy edge between dreams and lucidity, fact and fiction, cinema and psychotherapy".

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