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The Forbidden Room (2015)

Mystery | 130 minutes
3,14 74 votes

Genre: Mystery / Comedy

Duration: 130 minuten

Country: Canada

Directed by: Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson

Stars: Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey and Louis Negin

IMDb score: 6,2 (3.570)

Releasedate: 7 October 2015

The Forbidden Room plot

A man in an open robe explains how best to take a bath. Then the action moves to a submarine that has only a few hours of oxygen left. Then the film jumps to the story of a woodcutter who must rescue a young woman from the clutches of the Red Wolves and another stop is that of a doctor who is held captive by dancing women in skeleton suits. There is also a man who undergoes a lobotomy to make sure he no longer looks at a woman's buttocks and someone who commits murder to hide that he has forgotten his wife's birthday.

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coumi

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Still one of the worst movies I've seen this year.

Extra painful because the makers clearly have some talent and guts, but don't know how to process this into a coherent whole. Ridiculous and poorly developed storylines, of such a level that you get the irritating feeling that they are making fun of the viewer.

Perhaps a recommendation for those looking for something different, something striking, because visually alone this is a remarkable piece of film homework. But the average viewer will shake his head or frown at this ultimately failed, dysfunctional drivel.

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TheBunk

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The shortcoming of The Forbidden Room is its running time, which is over two hours. Like a feverish dream without end, it just keeps going and especially in the third act (when viewed separately, some of the most beautiful scenes can be seen) your attention can wane. With some sharper cutting and pasting, this film would have been much more compact. However, you can't have much more criticism of this loving homage by Maddin to silent film. Like no other, it is a film that enters into a relationship with the viewer, that asks a lot but ultimately gives at least as much back. There is so much love in this project. Rules are shamelessly ignored and that makes The Forbidden Room an absolutely unique film of great beauty. Cult with a capital C.

Read more at Cinema Interruptus

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eRCee

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I thought it was a success, especially as a one-off experiment, and the visual style is indeed quite unique. The intertitles work well in particular. I found the humor to be somewhat variable, and then the length takes its toll a bit, as others have noted (although it is a fine film for a break halfway through). I also like a more connecting line between the characters and the developments, and for that you should not be at The forbidden room. That this is indeed a nice experiment but not a masterpiece is evident to me from the fact that I am not immediately looking forward to more films along the same lines.

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