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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Guy Maddin’s Keyhole

Maddin reunites with his Saddest Music In the World star Isabella Rossellini and grabs mysterious screen personas in Jason Patric and Udo Kier for what will surely be another glorious b&w shot film, which will once again be difficult and pointless to classify.

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#81. Keyhole

Director: Guy Maddin
Writer(s): Guy Maddin and George Toles
Producers: Jean Du Toit, Lindsay Hamel, Phyllis Laing, Jody Shapiro and Maddin
Distributor: Rights Available.

The Gist: A gangster (Jason Patric) returns home after a long absence toting a drowned girl, who has mysteriously returned to life, and a bound-and-gagged hostage, who is actually his own teenage son. His odyssey is through his own house one room at a time until he arrives in the boudoir of his wife (Isabella Rossellini.)….(more)

Cast: Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini and Udo Kier

List Worthy Reasons…Maddin reunites with his Saddest Music In the World star Isabella Rossellini and grabs mysterious screen personas in Jason Patric and Udo Kier for what will surely be another glorious b&w shot film, which will once again be difficult and pointless to classify.

Release Date/Status?: Will play at TIFF for sure, the festival circuit and probably nowhere near your local multiplex.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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