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Brand Upon the Brain!

2007 · 98 min

A feverish, flickering dream of childhood memory, by turns grotesque and funny, demanding surrender to its strange silent rhythms.

Directed by: Guy Maddin
Genres: Drama, Mystery
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Erik Steffen Maahs, Sullivan Brown

Overview: After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

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Directed by: Guy Maddin
Genres: Drama, Mystery
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Erik Steffen Maahs, Sullivan Brown

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
isolation
obsession
family
madness
Places: single country house
sea
Era: timeless
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language none
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	6
Humour	4
Realism	2
Romance	3
Tension	5
Darkness	7
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, mystery
Directed by: Guy Maddin
Written by: George Toles, Louis Negin, Guy Maddin
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Erik Steffen Maahs, Sullivan Brown, Gretchen Krich, Maya Lawson, Jake Morgan-Scharhon, Andrew Loviska, Kellan Larson
Music: Jason Staczek
Cinematography: Benjamin Kasulke
Runtime: 98 min
Country: Canada, United States of America
Languages: English

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