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Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)

When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam's daughter and falls in love. But she won't let any man touch her until her father's murder has been avenged.

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Greg S 24 Sep 2009

Guy Maddin makes what are probably the most unusual black comedies in recent memory, and this is no exception. The story goes like this, a man brings his girlfriend to get an abortion at a beauty salon and ends up falling for the owners daughter during the proceedure, meanwhile his girlfriend bleeds to death on the operating table. The man quickly forgets his girlfriend and begins to pursue the owners daughter. Unfortunately for him, the only way she'll let him touch her is if he gets his hands chopped off and replaced with the hands of her dead father. From there things get weird. This is the first in Maddin's "autobiographical" trilogy, which also includes Brand Upon The Brain and My Winnipeg. One great thing about Maddin is that he never disappoints (with the exception of Twilight of the Ice Nymphs). His films feel like what you would get if Murnau and Lynch got together and took some acid.

Ben S 21 Aug 2008

I've probably spent stranger hours watching movies, but this cuckoo Guy Maddin film was one of the more memorable such 60 minutes and change.

Damien F 09 Jun 2007

Ever since having seen The Saddest Music in the World, Guy Maddin has been one of my favorite contemporary film directors. He's, all at once, an iconoclastic avant-gardist and retro-minded film historian who crafts weird, surreal, endlessly imaginative and strangely resonant jewels of films. This one is among his best of the ones I've seen, with scheming lovers, two severed blue hands, beauty/abortion parlor, and a wax museum filled with Canadian hockey player statues. And there's a good deal of full frontal nudity - which is delightfully jarring in the context of this modern silent film (in certain scenes, it really could pass for something made in 1928).

Ken Fox 10 Aug 2004

Oddly, once removed from the museum setting and strung together into an hourlong feature, it's Maddin's most cohesive narrative.

Gray E 29 Sep 2008

Guy Maddin's movies have made me appreciate how beautifully shot the old silent films were. There's so much movies can learn from them today.