Archangel

Name: Archangel
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance, War
Released: July 19, 1991
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Ari Cohen, David Falkenburg, Ihor Procak, Kathy Marykuca, Kyle McCulloch

1991

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TiMe Filmverleih | Release Date: July 19, 1991 | Not Rated

Starring: Ari Cohen, David Falkenburg, Ihor Procak, Kathy Marykuca, Kyle McCulloch, Margaret Anne MacLeod, Michael Gottli, Michael O'Sullivan, Sarah Neville, Victor Cowie

Summary: An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.

Director: Guy Maddin

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance, War

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Dave Kehr

Archangel is a perfectly self-contained aesthetic object, maddening in its arbitrariness and opacity, yet wholly absorbing in its flurry of urgent yet incomprehensible significations. Read full review

Michael Upchurch

Archangel, defying every contemporary cinema convention as it does, won't be to everyone's taste. But for those interested in the wilder possibilities of what film can do, it's an absolute must Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

What comes across is a fascinating fetishist delirium, where memories of remote war movies get recycled into something that's alternately creepy and beautiful. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

So much for the plot; what's important is Maddin's witty, knowing evocation of vintage movie kitsch. [11 Dec 1991, p.F11]

Stephen Holden

From its flickering, inky cinematography to its wavering late 1920's-style sound track, to Veronkha's kohl-eyed vampish look, the movie is an expert parody of a period movie style. Read full review

Stephen Godfrey

Wonderfully theatrical in conceit and frequently beautiful to look at, Archangel is nevertheless choppy and listless in pace, and has little of the surrealist zing of the earlier film (Tales from the Gimli Hospital). [03 Sep 1990]

Marc Savlov

At once perplexing and joyous, Maddin has crafted a film that, for all the confusion inherent in the tale, unfolds on its own unique (and rather tedious) terms. Love it or hate it, this is one film that just doesn't give a damn what you think. Read full review

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