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Title: Moody, surreal drama is a homage to the silent era of film...
Review: "Tales of Gimli Hospital" (1988) was Guy Madden's first feature film. The story takes place in Gimli, Manitoba during the smallpox epidemic at the beginning of the 20th century. The story focuses on two friends Emar, and Gunnar, who are patients in a hospital room. This film has a dream like quality that has stories within stories, and a film style that is a homage to the silent pictures and surrealistic directors of the past such as F.W. Murnau and Jean Cocteau. David Lynch's film "Eraserhead" also comes to mind watching this movie. There is a creepy, but playful quality to Maddin's film about unconsummated passions, envy, and disease.Also included are two shorter films as well as a director's commentary for the feature film. "The Father" is a story about reminiscence and dread which is told with a self effacing sense of humor.
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