Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Giants, fairies, magicians, ghosts, dragons, and monsters of all kinds… Here’s what your Cinémathèque has in store this summer! Since Méliès, filmmakers have embraced the fanstastic potential of cinema, creating infinite phantasmagorias and extraordinary spectacles where the unreal becomes real. Step into a world of fantasy and boundless imagination: whatever your generation, the monsters and wonders that once filled your childhood dreams are back this summer 2025!
Exceptionally presented with German subtitles
Peter Glahn, a former political prisoner, returns to his hometown. On a ship sailing to the legendary Mandragore, he meets the bewitching Juliana Kossel, with whom he falls madly in love. She unexpectedly disappears when they reach port, in that mysterious place where the sun never sets. Guy Maddin's extraordinarily stylized mise-en-scène delivers a memorably offbeat romance.
Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin is a Canadian director, screenwriter, author, cinematographer, and installation artist. He is known for his fascination with lost Silent-era films and for incorporating their aesthetics into his own work. Without significant budgets, he manages to create a strikingly disorienting body of work that is at once poetic, lyrical, surreal, and deeply personal, blending boundless imagination with the most profound uninhibited desires. His subjects are enough to baffle the viewer: a love triangle between amnesiac soldiers in Archangel (1990), high-mountain incest in a colorful and oppressive atmosphere reminiscent of an Oedipal fairy tale for Careful (1993), an international sad music competition organized by a legless beer baroness in The Saddest Music in the World (2003)... Maddin also explores a more autobiographical vein, his "fantasized autobiography", with films like Cowards Bend the Knee (2003), Brand Upon the Brain! (2006), and the mockumentary My Winnipeg (2007).
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