Keyhole

Name: Keyhole
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: April 6, 2012
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 63
Cast: Brooke Palsson, Isabella Rossellini, Jason Patric, Udo Kier

2012

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Monterey Media | Release Date: April 6, 2012 | R

Starring: Brooke Palsson, Isabella Rossellini, Jason Patric, Udo Kier

Summary: In a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick arrives home after a long absence tow-ing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journey-ing through theIn a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick arrives home after a long absence tow-ing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journey-ing through the house, room by room, and reaching his wife Hyacinth in her bedroom upstairs. The equilibrium of the house has been disturbed and his odyssey eventually becomes an emotional tour, as the ghostly nooks and crannies of the house reveal more about the mysterious Pick family. (Monterey Media Inc.)… Expand

Director: Guy Maddin

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 94 min

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Carmen Gray

Sep 1, 2012

Though self-referential to a fault, the deadpan humour, frayed logic and monochrome dazzle cast their own richly peculiar spell. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Apr 12, 2012

Like Maddin's melancholic and relatively more conventional "My Winnipeg," Keyhole is about a memory house, but one that is even more fragmented, mythical and elusive. Read full review

Ian Buckwalter

Apr 6, 2012

Just as Ulysses illustrates the reflective nature of his journey by constantly turning back the hands of the house's clocks, each film of Maddin's is a reset button for the past. The director operates like a ghost himself, going back over his personal history and the history of cinema in an endless loop until he gets them right. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Apr 6, 2012

I have to confess that this surreal departure by the iconoclastic filmmaker tried my patience more than a bit. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Apr 3, 2012

For all the undeniable imaginativeness and visual dazzle (this is Maddin's first entirely digital feature, and it positively glistens), Keyhole ultimately comes off like a feature-length private joke that revels a bit too gleefully in its overall inscrutability. Close, Guy. But no Double Yahtzee. Read full review

David Rooney

Apr 1, 2012

An exercise in opaque supernatural storytelling that's as frustrating as it is beguiling. Read full review

Ty Burr

May 31, 2012

The first Guy Maddin movie that feels as if it got only halfway out of the director's head and onto the screen. Read full review

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