Cowards Bend the Knee / Трусы cгибают колени / The Blue Hands (2003) DVD5 |
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Авангардная экспериментальная арт-драма, стилизациями под немое кино начала 20 века. Фильм начинается с картинки в микроскопе: это похоже на копошение сперматозоидов. По мере увеличения становится ясно, что это - хоккеисты на льду, чьи хаотичное движение снято экспрессивной камерой. Эта история, конечно, не происходит в реальном мире: она странно забавна, дика и полна сильных страстей. Сам Мэддин играет главную роль - талантливого, но слабовольного хоккеиста Дарси, который помог команде "Виннипегские Мороны" победить в сезонном чемпионате. Однако, его триумфальное настроение портится, когда его возлюбленная Вероника сообщает ему, что беременна. Не готовый к отцовству, Дарси сопровождает Веронику в "Чёрный силуэт" - гибрид косметического магазина и публичного дома, где доктор-трансвестит делает аборты. Пока Вероника лежит на столе, Дарси замечает среди обитательниц яркую азиатку Мету и влюбляется в нее в с первого взгляда, немедленно забыв Веронику. Но Мета не будет одаривать Дарси своими услугами, пока он не пройдет тест - он должен выследить мужчину, которые убил ее отца, а затем убить его, используя руки ее покойного отца...
It's time for hockey! There's no telling what will happen when the Winnipeg Maroons' own star player Guy becomes embroiled in the twisted lives of Meta, a vengeful Chinoise, and her hairdresser/abortionist mother Liliom. Innocent Veronica, caught in the middle, is treated to both services! Meanwhile poor, dithering, cowardly Guy can only stand by and watch... |
Guy Maddin is a player with the Winnipeg Maroons ice hockey team. But after a bump on the head during a game, Guy loses his memory. Not knowing what he is doing, he is seduced away from his girlfriend Veronica by Meta, the daughter of the hairdresser Liliom. However Meta will not let Guy put his hands on her until her father’s death is avenged. Meta saw Liliom and her lover Shaky, the police captain, strangle her father Chas during a shampoo. She has had her father’s hands severed and now has Guy chloroformed and then orders Fusi, the team doctor, to transplant her father’s hands onto Guy’s wrists. Fusi thinks the request crazy and instead throws the hands away and paints Guy’s hands blue to fool her. Thinking he has Chas’s hands, Guy goes on a killing spree.
Guy Maddin is one of the most unique and distinctive directors in the world. He first appeared with Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1989) and went onto increasingly more well-known arthouse films such as Archangel (1990), Careful (1993), Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997), Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002), The Saddest Music in the World (2003), Brand Upon the Brain! (2006) and My Winnipeg (2007). All of Maddin’s films seem like artefacts from a silent movie era that never was, where Maddin is constantly recreating the lighting and camerawork of the era and has a great fascination with German Expressionist sets. But at the same time, Maddin’s films come overrun with a surreal banality, of hysterically melodramatic plots and characters uttering purple prose dialogue in perfect deadpan.
Cowards Bend the Knee began not even as a film but rather as an art installation commissioned by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto. Cowards Bend the Knee is only 60 minutes long and Maddin originally conceived it so that it could be viewed in 10 separate segments of 6 minutes each where gallery visitors would step up to a peephole and watch each episode playing. The film has been repackaged as a single continuous feature for international film festival audiences.
Cowards Bend the Knee came out the same year as Guy Maddin’s much more high profile The Saddest Music in the World. Cowards Bend the Knee was made with a miniscule budget – Maddin shot it in five days, on Super 8 (a tradition that has become even more obscure that silent cinema has these days), with no accompanied soundtrack and of course no recognizable name stars. Saddest Music ended disappointing somewhat and in fact the much more low-budgeted Cowards Bend the Knee is, at least in this author’s opinion, a much superior film.
Cowards Bend the Knee trips through most of the main plot elements of Saddest Music – and indeed themes that recur with great regularity throughout Guy Maddin’s work – incest, love triangles, bizarre forms of mutilation, amnesia. (Rather alarmingly, Maddin claims that Cowards Bends the Knee is an autobiographical work and is really about his own disturbed childhood, with the lead character even being named Guy Maddin – which probably explains the recurrence of such themes in his work. In reality Maddin’s father was a coach for an ice hockey team and his mother ran a beauty salon). While Saddest Music passed through most of the same themes, it seemed a rather distant reworking of Maddin-esque preoccupations. Cowards Bends the Knee by contrast wields a similar plot but does so with a directorial élan that often dazzles.
While most of Guy Maddin’s previous movies have sourced the visual style of silent movies, Maddin has set out to make Cowards Bend the Knee as an actual silent movie – there is no dialogue, only intertitle cards (although the soundtrack is filled with various classic music excerpts and occasional sound effects). Maddin employs all the lighting stylistics of silent cinema, the iris camera lens, the exaggerated makeup effects, even touches up the print to give it the worn look of a silent movie being projected today. But at the same time Maddin has also employed modern cinematic styles – the blurred, undercranked video-shot look favoured of MTV directors, as well as the idea of having the action move as a series of sequential stills that was most memorably used by Chris Marker in La Jetee (1962). The photography is also gauzed out in the way Maddin likes it and frequently underlit, all with quite beautiful results. Even though he is making a silent movie, Maddin’s blending of styles highlights every contorted expression with striking and potent emphasis.
Cowards Bend the Knee is the closest that Guy Maddin has come to making a normal film to date. It’s almost something that you could imagine taking places in the melodramatic plottings of a soap opera or a horror movie. Indeed one of the inspirations for the film appear to have been yet another silent movie – the classic German film The Hands of Orlac (1925), which was remade a number of times, most memorably as Mad Love (1935), and concerned a mad surgeon hypnotizing a pianist into believing that he had grafted on the hands of a killer. The melodrama of the original story is clearly one that has attracted Maddin and Cowards Bend the Knee could almost function as a loose remake.
Информация о фильме: Название: Трусы cгибают колени Оригинальное название: Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands Год выхода: 2003 Жанр: драма, мелодрама, немое кино Режиссер / Director: Гай Мэддин / Guy Maddin Сценарий / Writers: Guy Maddin (writer) Оператор / Cinematography by: Guy Maddin Art Direction by: Craig Aftanas В ролях / Cast: Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Amy Stewart, Tara Birtwhistle, Louis Negin, Mike Bell, David Stuart Evans, Henry Mogatas, Victor Cowie, Herdis Maddin, Marion Martin, Aurum McBride, Bernard Lesk, Erin Hershberg, Erika Rintoul, Charlene Van Buekenhout, Sherrill Hershberg, Kathryn Stuart, Lauren Ritz, Rebecca Sandulak, Kirstin Ward, Billy Dee Knight, Ricardo Alms, Craig Aftanas, Jim Crawford, Mike Silver, Bob Unger, Mark Yuill, Caelum Vatnsdal, Matt Holm, Meghan Greenlay, Erin McKenzie, Richard Orlandini, Don Hewak, Stan Lesk, Ted Avent, Jon Ted Wynne, Ian Yorski, Dave McDonald, Steve Burke, Robert Enright, Spencer Maybee, Brad Jonasson, Shauna Evans, Tracy McBride, Rodney LaTourelle, Alex Khizder, Moses...
Выпущено / Country: Канада / Canada Производство / Company: Winnipeg Manitoba Продолжительность / Runtime: 01:00:00 Язык / Language: English Русский перевод / Russian translation: не требуется (фильм немой) Параметры: Качество: DVD5 Video: NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR Audio: English (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) Размер / Size: 4.11 Gb (4 422 359 040 bytes) Download: Cowards Bend the Knee / Трусы cгибают колени (2003) DVD5 Внимание! У вас нет прав для просмотра ссылок. Зарегистрируйтесь. Рекомендую / I recommend: |
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