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A Trip to the Orphanage

dir. Guy Maddin / Canada 2004 / 4’

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

Maria Medeiros, Sarah Constible

Film description

A visual variation about The Saddest Music in the World (2003), set in a new context. In freezing weather on a snowy street, a moving song reaches one's ear. A sad-eyed woman (Maria Medeiros) listens to the music and gazes at the singer. The film brings a sleepy and melancholic atmosphere with a crown of ambiguous reference to motherhood and a subtle allusion to incest theme. (ar)