From Canadian screenwriter, director, author, and cinematographer Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg, The Saddest Music in all the World) and co-director Evan Johnson comes the weird and wonderful cinematic spectacular that is The Forbidden Room.
It evolved from an interactive artistic ‘seances’ project, with Maddin as the director/medium channelling the spirits of silent films lost to the archives via improvised live ‘happenings’. Participants featured include Udo Kier, Charlotte Rampling, Mathieu Amalric and Ariane Labed; following groups and characters including a submarine crew, a pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon and a battalion of child soldiers, all wending their way through progressive ideas on life and love.
Eschewing a traditional linear narrative for a feast of epic, phantasmagorical imagery, The Forbidden Room is an unforgettable celebration of cinema and filmmaking curated by a modern master.