Cowards
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- Synopsis
- The wildly idiosyncratic Canadian auteur Guy Maddin created this exercise in semi-autobiographical impressionism. Guy Maddin (Darcy Fehr) is a gifted but weak-willed hockey player who has helped drive the Winnipeg Maroons to a championship season....
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- Starring
- Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Amy Stewart, Tara Birtwhistle, Louis Negin
- Director(s)
- Guy Maddin
- Distributor(s)
- Power Plant
- MPAA Rating
- Not Yet Rated
- Runtime
- 60 min.
Critic Reviews
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The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott TobiasAdd Critic to Favorites
Abortion, incest, infidelity, revenge, and hockey collide at a fever pitch, juxtaposed with such frantic energy that they're pushed to the level of high comedy, funniest at its most dramatic.Read the full review
Variety | Ronnie ScheibAdd Critic to Favorites
Ultimately, psychotically inventive pic is a formidable addition to the ever-evolving Maddin oeuvre.Read the full review
The New York Times | Manohla DargisAdd Critic to Favorites
There is also something rather splendid about this extended-play peep show, as if Mr. Maddin had stumbled across a hitherto lost archive of cinema's less-than-innocent past. What makes all this nostalgia for a movie history that never happened is that, as is always the case with Mr. Maddin's work, it's executed with more love than irony and not a whit of derision.Read the full review
