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THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Canada 2015) ****
Directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
Review by Gilbert Seah
Another weird and wonderful film by Guy Maddin with co-creator Evan Johnson – and one of Maddin’s best and most structured, which is not saying much. And the film is in colour instead of black and white.
The film begins, humorously with a man in a bathrobe (Louis Negin) giving lessons on how to draw a bath. This vignette is linked to another concerning a submarine crew in dire distress. The captain is missing and the air supply is running out. They chew on flapjacks to utilize the oxygen bubbles in the batter. Does not make sense? It does not matter. All this is part of the weird pleasure that is abundant in a Maddin film. A woodsman (Roy Dupuis) suddenly…
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