Cowards Bend the Knee
Friday, October 11 - Thursday, October 17, 2024
Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE is “jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger…In this twisted and poisoned wish-fulfillment, the mythomaniacal Maddin casts ‘himself’ (actually, Darcy Fehr) as a hockey sniper made lily-livered by mother and daughter femme fatales, and resurrects his father as as the team’s radio broadcaster and his own romantic antagonist. Set in a shadow-suffused hockey arena and a Mabuse-like beauty salon-slash-abortion clinic, the plot drips with Grecian formula, as sordid family secrets spawn unintentional murder most foul.” -Mark Peranson
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Part of our retrospective Forbidden Rooms: The Films of Guy Maddin
- Country Canada
- Language Silent with English Subtitles
- Year 2003
- Running Time 64 minutes
- Format DCP
- Distributor Zeitgeist Films
- Director Guy Maddin
- Cast Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Amy Stewart, Tara Birtwhistle, Louis Negin
- Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil
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