An acquired taste, Maddin is an unusually precise director who leaves little to chance. Whether one finds his approach too careful or just stunningly controlled will be up to individual cineastes.
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05/08/07
Careful (1992)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:9
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.5/10
Synopsis: A stylish, parodic take on the German mountain films of the 1920's, this drama follows the travails of a widow and her three sons--the oldest of whom develops a sexual obsession for his mother--as... [More]
Starring: Gosia Dobrowolska, Vince Rimmer, Kyle McCulloch, Brent Neale
Director: Guy Maddin
Reviews for Careful
1 - 12 (sorted by fresh rating; Australian critics are listed first)
Uniquely weird, subtly macabre, and utterly compelling.
06/24/06
A weirdly amusing parable of sexual repression.
10/03/06
No review available.
06/28/05
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.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
03/09/06
It's certainly an astounding film for its purely spectacular terms.
03/27/09
In part a hilarious satire about Canadian timidity, it also comes across periodically as a formalist gem about nothing at all.
05/08/07
Careful is one long and amusing pun on German Expressionistic film imagery, Freudian psychology and quasi-Wagnerian storytelling, all carried to absurdist lengths.
05/20/03
Top CriticThere's something wonderfully unique about the project but the reasons for doing it remain buried.
01/01/00
Top CriticToo strange for its own good, Careful is less interesting as a film than it is as a Canadian cinematic anomaly.
01/01/00
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