Careful
Kino Video (1992)
Comedy, Drama, Horror
In Collection
#2374
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Seen ItYes
738329018429
IMDB   7.2
2 hr 40 mins Canada / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Shelley Duvall
Gosia Dobrowolska Zenaida
Alice Krige
Sarah Neville Klara
Paul Cox Count Knotkers
Kyle McCulloch Grigorss
Brent Neale Johann
Victor Cowie Herr Trotta
Michael O'Sullivan Blind Ghost
Katya Gardner Sigleinde
Vince Rimmer Franz
Jackie Burroughs Frau Teacher
Director
Guy Maddin
Noam Gonick
Producer Tracy Traeger
Greg Klymkiw
Andre Bennett
Writer Guy Maddin
George Toles

"Mr. Maddin's Most Polished And Coherent Work…A Freudian Wasp's Nest Of Incestuous Desire And Sibling Rivalry" -THE NEW YORK TIMES

Internationally acclaimed cult director Guy Maddin (Tales From The Gimli Hospital, Archangel) scales new heights of cinematic strangeness in Careful, a weird, funny and unforgettable parable of sexual repression set in an Alpine village.

"Be Careful." "Never hold a baby's face near an open pin." "Never gamble with life." These are the bizarre warnings that the good people of Tolzbad live by.

But most importantly, they must never utter loud sounds lest they cause an avalanche. Sheepskins are hung in windows to muffle noise and the vocal chords of all animals have been severed to insure quiet and safety.

Sound is not the only thing that must be suppressed, however, For Tolzbad is a hotbed of repressed desires, Oedipal angst, and sibling rivalry. And, it only takes one young man's incestuous dream to trigger an emotional avalanche replete with suicides, ghostly visions, forbidden romances and murder.

Shot in bright, vivid color reminiscent of early two-strip Technicolor, Careful is a visually dazzling, dream-like, quasi-Freudian masterpiece that parodies the German mountain films of the 1920's and authentically recreates the surrealistic style of such famous German Expressionist films as Nosferatu and The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari.

Hailed as "one of the 10 best films of 1992" (Interview Magazine), Guy Maddin has termed Careful a "pro-repression movie", but don't repress your desire to see this remarkable "never-before kind of film" (Daily News).
Edition Details
Edition Remastered and Repressed
Distributor Zeitgeist Films
Chapters 28
Release Date 10/17/2000
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 Color
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

Features
"Waiting For Twilight": A 60 Minute Documentary About Guy Maddin and His Work
Audio Commentary Track by Guy Maddin and Writer George Toles