Careful

Name: Careful
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: August 27, 1993
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Brent Neale, Gosia Dobrowolska, Jackie Burroughs, Katya Gardner, Kyle McCulloch

1993

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Cinephile | Release Date: August 27, 1993 | Not Rated

Starring: Brent Neale, Gosia Dobrowolska, Jackie Burroughs, Katya Gardner, Kyle McCulloch, Michael O'Sullivan, Paul Cox, Sarah Neville, Victor Cowie, Vince Rimmer

Summary: In the Alpine village of Tolzbad in the 1800s, the townsfolk talk quietly and restrain their movements lest they incur avalanches. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction toIn the Alpine village of Tolzbad in the 1800s, the townsfolk talk quietly and restrain their movements lest they incur avalanches. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore. All this is shot in the style of an early German sonal film, complete with intertitles, crackly sound-track and 'hand-tinted' colour effects.… Expand

Director: Guy Maddin

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Rick Groen

Canadian director Guy Maddin is an artist supreme - he steals with a liberal flourish and with enough sheer imagination that his previous films (Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Archangel) are often described as boldly original. Careful, his latest offering, is no exception - it's an honours graduate from the same school of dusted-off originality. [10 Oct 1992]

Nigel Floyd

Uniquely weird, subtly macabre, and utterly compelling. Read full review

Hal Hinson

Careful, the hilariously bizarre new film from Canadian director Guy Maddin, is like some lost masterpiece from a time-warped alternative dimension -- a strange artifact that time forgot. Read full review

Stephen Holden

If the central performances in Careful approached the earnest intensity of some of its early-1930's inspirations, the movie would probably be twice as funny. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

While the deliberately amateurish, stilted acting seems at odds with the fruity dialogue, Maddin's intention is to subdue every aspect of his peculiar dreamscape; acting, decor, costuming, cinematography and sound recording remain equal components. No one element predominates or upsets the director's carefully controlled chaos. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Maddin keeps what could have been a one-joke theme interesting for an admirably long time. But eventually, it becomes, well, hard to breathe. There's something wonderfully unique about the project but the reasons for doing it remain buried. Read full review

Marc Savlov

Too strange for its own good, Careful is less interesting as a film than it is as a Canadian cinematic anomaly. Read full review

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