Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

• Year: 1988
• Released: 15 Apr 1988
• Country: Canada
• Adwords: 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096218/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tales_from_the_gimli_hospital
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Icelandic, English
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
• Runtime: 72 min
• Writer: Guy Maddin
• Director: Guy Maddin
• Cast: Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck
• Keywords: avant-garde,

	6.6/10
	71/100
	78% – Critics
	72% – Audience

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Not necessarily as strange as it seems…

I picked up this movie since I live in Gimli, and have heard interesting things about Guy Maddin. Though certainly a strange and surrealist film, it is also a monument and critique of Icelandic culture, and Gimli, where he had a summer cottage. If you know the history of Gimli, and are familiar with Icelandic culture, certain parts of the film do not seem strange at all. I would be interested in knowing how people not knowing these things interpreted things like the marriage across the river, or the food served at the hospital. I am in love with the aesthetics of it. He has been able to capture the exact look of early films, right down to actors and costuming, yet this doesn’t seem to take over the film. Though I am personally a bigger fan of Maddin’s short films, I enjoyed trying to work my way through this.

The darkly surreal world of the Gimli Hospital

This is a surreal film from Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin, his first feature. The story focuses on the town of Gimli, Manitoba, a long time ago, during an outbreak of smallpox. Two patients in a strange hospital become friends, then deadly rivals. The film is in its own surreal world, with the town of Gimli featuring unconventional behaviour, like the people washing their faces with straw, squeezing the insides of fish onto their heads, rubbing dead birds onto patient’s wounds, a weird black-faced minstrel, a cow that lives under a bed, and many fishes that are present in most scenes. It really is a special piece of low budget surreal filmmaking, and is deservedly compared to David Lynch’s Eraserhead.

Truly surreal and grotesque film.

Guy Maddin is a truly unusual filmmaker.His movies are black comedic and supremely bizarre excursions into silent black-and-white cinema.”Tales from the Gimli Hospital” is possibly his most famous and creepiest work to date.This is a wonderfully strange and puzzling movie filled with haunting and disturbing imagery.The action takes place in the small fishing town of Gimli,Manitoba, in some indeterminate time in the early part of the 20th Century.Einar and Gunnar,two men afflicted with the deadly smallpox virus,are housed in the small Gimli Hospital,their bodies covered with the scars of disease,their minds slowly slipping into paranoia and fear.Much of the film is silent,only archaic soundtrack is used regularly.The film is shot in equisite black-and-white and looks terrific.Give it a look,if you enjoy watching surrealist cinema.8 out of 10.