Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988). 1h 12m

“Guy Maddinu0026#39;s u0026quot;Tales from Gimli Hospitalu0026quot; is a surreal locomotive of a film that never for a second pretends to make a lick of sense. Characters and events lack logic and motivation, leaving the proceedings within an oddball world of duck feathers, Indian burials, and mute men (some in blackface). The result is intriguing yet pretentious and too deliberately ambiguous (while u0026quot;Eraserheadu0026quot; made less narrative sense, its u0026#39;cluesu0026#39; were more meticulously assembled), but shows promise from writer-director Guy Maddin, who successfully invokes the classic styles of German Expressionism and even u0026quot;Hour of the Wolfu0026quot;-era Ingmar Bergman.”