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Keyhole (2011)

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Guy Maddin is all about juxtaposition. It's in the editing. It's in the genre-bending. It's certainly in the way he makes films that seem to come from a bygone era, yet are also totally modern. Keyhole stars Jason Patric as a gangster who has returned to his family home with his gang and a psychic, trying to get forgiveness from his estranged wife (frequent Maddin collaboratrix Isabella Rossellini). The house is haunted, but the audience is warranted in asking who exactly is haunting who, because characters who seem alive may actually be dead, or perhaps vice-versa, and Maddin doesn't contradict any conclusions we might arrive at on that score. Highly expressionistic, even surreal, this Kafka-esque piece is also moody and tense, but again there's juxtaposition: It's also kind of a black comedy. Come to think of it, despite the bizarre imagery, one of the weirdest things about Keyhole might just be that Kevin MacDonald has a role in it! 1 year 11 months ago
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