My Winnipeg

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My Winnipeg

2008

1h 20m

Documentary

Comedy

Drama

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Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin conducts a personal tour of Winnipeg, Manitoba, the town where he grew up and still lives, in a film he calls a "docu-fantasia." By combining archival footage and interviews, dreamlike camera work and recreated scenes -- including several with actress Ann Savage playing the part of Maddin's mother -- the filmmaker builds a portrait of Winnipeg that manages to be historical, intimate, surreal, entertaining and entirely his own.

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Critics Consensus

My Winnipeg is a charmingly irreverent 'docu-fantasy' from the unpredictable mind of Guy Maddin.

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Judy Berman

Tiny Mix Tapes

12/06/2018

4/5

More an abstract hallucination than a photo-realist portrait, My Winnipeg would be out of place on the "documentary" shelf at the video store. But it deserves prime placement in the Guy Maddin canon.

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Noel Murray

The Dissolve

01/26/2015

4/5

Maddin mixes personal reminiscences with elaborate fantasies of Masonic rituals and collectivist brothels, to construct a vision of Winnipeg as a city of sleepwalkers.

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John DeFore

The Hollywood Reporter

10/18/2008

Guy Maddin docu about his hometown gives fans everything they'd expect, plus a few moments of unexpected sincerity.

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Ray Pride

Newcity

02/13/2025

10/10

An ostensible perambulation down the tracks of Maddin's tearaways from childhood onward on the Manitoba prairie, it’s an elusive tone poem compacted from all his idées fixes.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

10/29/2020

4/5

Beautiful, strange, and endlessly intriguing, there's a nostalgic bite to the film which lasts well after its bizarre visual poetry subsides from view.

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

07/07/2019

3/4

Occasionally uneven and often opaque and aimless, but it is clear Maddin knows what he's doing. And by the time it is over, he has transported us not just to Winnipeg, but into the heart and soul of an artist.

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Jacob B

@RT48293763 03/06/2025

Outstanding! Every time I watch this film I walk away feeling elated. It’s such a unique experience! Incomparable. I’ve heard the term “dream-like” before to describe a film, but this one definitely deserves it. Part film, part documentary, part hallucination, part fever dream. Indescribable; a must watch!!

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Steven C

@AnonymousBosch 10/31/2024

I've spent a lot of time in Winnipeg over the years. This film was for me a reflection of the complicated relationship that I have with Winnipeg. The film is unique, one of a kind. I have never seen anything like it.

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David F

@dfulmer 10/31/2023

This is a wild autobiographical documentary about the filmmaker's hometown - Winnipeg. It's loopy, phantasmagorical, and spontaneous. This is personal filmmaking at its finest.

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AB L

@Alec97 08/31/2023

Maddin effectively blurs the lines between truth, fiction, mockumentary, psychological examination, fable, and art project into something totally unique. One of the great movies of the 00s

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12/25/2021

My Winnipeg is an indie film through and through. This is the type of film that's best enjoyed while half drunk with some boujee friends at an art event where cheap wine and laughter soften the awkwardness of this films deliverance. With that being said I can't hate on My Winnipeg seeing as I was born and raised here.

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06/09/2021

A charming dreamlike movie shot in hazy black and white. Indeed, director and actor Guy Madden tells us early on that Winnipeg has the highest incidence of sleepwalking in the world. It might be fact or it might be fiction as is the case in much of the movie. Madden is portrayed as sleeping on a train hoping to escape the city even as he narrates his memories and impression of it (maybe fact, maybe fiction, mixed in varying degrees. Winnipeg comes across as a hapless place to be, and I want to move there.

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Synopsis

Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin conducts a personal tour of Winnipeg, Manitoba, the town where he grew up and still lives, in a film he calls a "docu-fantasia." By combining archival footage and interviews, dreamlike camera work and recreated scenes -- including several with actress Ann Savage playing the part of Maddin's mother -- the filmmaker builds a portrait of Winnipeg that manages to be historical, intimate, surreal, entertaining and entirely his own.

Director: Guy Maddin
Producer: Jody Shapiro, Phyllis Lang
Screenwriter: Guy Maddin, George Toles
Distributor: IFC First Take
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 13, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 18, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $156.6K
Runtime: 1h 20m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital