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  • Brand Upon the Brain!
  • Opened May 9, 2007 | Runtime:1 hr. 35 min.
  • NR
  • BRAND UPON THE BRAIN, 2007, The Film Company/Vitagraph Films, 96 min. Dir. Guy Maddin. What are young "Guy Maddin's" parents up to in their lighthouse orphanage? Overbearing Mother (Gretchen Krich) tracks her son's (Sullivan Brown) every move! And Read More
  • Cast: Erik Steffen Maahs, Gretchen Lee Krich, Sullivan Brown, Maya Lawson, Katherine E. Scharhon
  • Director: Guy Maddin
  • Genres: Avant-garde / Experimental, Surrealist Film

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  • 88
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Carrie Rickey

    A feverishly imaginative Freudian vampire film from Guy Maddin, is like a...

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It's an astonishing film: weird, obsessed, drawing on subterranean impulses,...

  • 80
    Salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir

    The result is giddy, exciting and hilarious, not quite like any artistic...

  • 80
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    Delirious, ingenious, often very funny and strangely touching film.

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