A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their darkest fears.
The more screen history you know, the greater the pleasure.
Guy Maddin’s eccentric film flickers, loops and veers between brilliant and boring – a homage to silent film that chases itself down rabbit holes.
This is Canadian visionary Guy Maddin’s exuberant exercise in high kitsch.
It is all great fun but exhausting as it stretches towards the two-hour mark.
Submarines, snow and brain surgery collide in these dazzling but bewildering tales within tales.
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