2007 · drama · mystery · supernatural
Brand Upon the Brain!
Directed by Guy Maddin1h 38m2007
After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
Our read: Brand Upon the Brain! (2007) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal drama · mystery · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / mystery, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- surreal
- cold
- twisty
- signature
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