MY WINNIPEG

Synopsis

A 10 Years Top 10 Retrospective Screening

It’s up to you whether to believe Guy Maddin’s more outlandish stories about his hometown in this slyly entertaining “docu-fantasia,” the No. 7 entry in our poll and a firm favourite of even those critics and audiences who lived far from the Prairies. But even if you don’t buy the filmmaker’s tales about a park full of frozen horses or secret séances in the Manitoba Legislative Building, you may share Maddin’s desire to wrestle with history, be it that of his family, his city or both at once. His journey through the past also becomes a compelling means to demonstrate how we all create mythologies about the places and people we love.