CAREFUL [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1992
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Plot: Internationally acclaimed cult director Guy Maddin (Tales From The Gimli Hospital, Archangel) scales new heights of cinematic strangeness in Careful, a weird, funny and unforgettable parable of sexual repression set in an Alpine village.; ; 'Be Careful,' 'Never hold a baby's face near an open pin,' 'Never gamble with life.' These are the bizare warnings that the good people of Tolzbad live by.; ; But most importantly, they must never utter loud sounds lest they cause an avalanche. Sheepskins are hung in windows to muffle noise and the vocal chords of all animals have been severed to insure quiet and safety.; ; Sound is not the only thing that must be suppressed, however. For Tolzbad is a hotbed of repressed desires, Oedipal angst, and sibling rivalry. And, it only takes one young man's incestuous dream to trigger an emotional avalanche replete with suicides, ghostly visions, forbidden romances and murder.; ; Shot in bright, vivid color remiscent of early two-strip Technicolor, Careful is a visually dazzling, dream-like, quasi-Freudian masterpiece that parodies the German mountain films of the 1920's and authentically recreates the surrealistic style of such famous German Expressionist films as Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.; ; Hailed as 'one of the 10 best films of 1992' (Interview Magazine), Guy Maddin has termed Careful a 'pro-repression movie', but don't repress your desire to see this remarkable 'never-before kind of film' (Daily News).
• Cast: Kyle McCulloch, Gosia Dobrowolska, Sarah Neville, Paul Cox, Brent Neale, Victor Cowie, Michael O'Sullivan, Katya Gardner, Vince Rimmer, Jackie Burroughs, Ross McMillan, Leith Clark, Glen Hubich, Brendan Carruthers, George Toles, Greg Klymkiw, Kelli Shinfield, Andrea Von Wichert, Carol McQuarrie, Barbara Green, Kathryn Martin, Lisa Skrypichako, Soffia Cooney, Dora Sigurdson, Hrund, Daisy, Tina Douvris, Arlea Ashcroft, Jennifer Harris, Rebecca Gibson, Julia Brown, Stacy Shore, Jilian Maddin, Alana Van Buren, Amanda Bourdon, Alexandra Rachey, Tanya Brown, Jessica Brown, Avril Maister, Tracy Gemmell, Ron Eyolfson, Roy Norton, Graham Bicq, Randy Kray, Sean Hanson, Robert Lunn, Peter Lunn, Don Hewak, Stu Lavitt, Jim Keller, Matt Holm, Conrad Percheson, Hans Ter Horst, Kurt Moritz, Jeff Solylo, Ian Handford, Caelum Vatnsdal, Mark Yuill, Jonas Chernick, Guy Maddin
• Director: Guy Maddin
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: Kino Video, Zeitgeist Films
• Media Format: movie