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It's a Wonderful Life

dir. Guy Maddin / Canada 2001 / 3’

subtitles: Polish and English

retrospective: Guy Maddin A Trip to the Orphanage, Archangel, Berlin, Brand Upon the Brain!, Careful, Collage Party, Cowards Bend the Knee, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, Footsteps, Glorious, Hospital Fragments, It's a Wonderful Life, It’s My Mother’s Birthday Today, My Dad Is 100 Years Old, My Winnipeg, Nude Caboose, Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Baloon Mounts Towards Infinity, Odin's Shield Maiden, Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair, Sissy-Boy-Slap-Party, Sombra dolorosa, Spanky: To the Pier and Back, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, The Dead Father, The Heart of the World, The Saddest Music in the World, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Workbooks Section index

Cast

Brent Neale, Carson Nattrass, Meagan Basaraba, Carl Matheson, Erin Hershberg, Erika Best, Sari Goldberg

Film description

The only music video in Guy Maddin's career, made for the Sparklehorse. They let me choose a song. I thought about It's a Wonderful Life, because something spinning around came to my mind while listening to this song. Hence the merry-go-round - Maddin says. In the video, he used a motifs from Fleurs de ténèbres, a short story by Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam. (km)