Guy Maddin’s indulgence in esoterica paradoxically leaves the film most vulnerable to the beating heart of this great artist of self-therapy.
Thomas Wolfe once said “you can’t go home again,” but you’ll believe the contrary with Criterion’s beautiful new Blu-ray.
What is home, and if we want to leave but can’t, why not?
The film is a wild orchestration of flamboyantly touching images and fair ground theatrics.
An enjoyable DVD release of a wonderfully strange film.
Writer-director Guy Maddin’s Cowards Bend the Knee is paradoxically retrograde and ultramodern.