Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson's "The Forbidden Room" is a two-hour audio-visual defibrillator of a movie, a relentless series of loosely connected scenes in the style of old silent and early sound films.
Maddin's work has always played with genre from this time period in cinema history and this piece extends his use of inter-titles, over-the-top acting and surrealistic story-telling by adding rapid-fire editing and visual effects to suggest you're watching old nitrate films that are deteriorating as the film stock moves through the projector.
It's exhausting and exhilarating in equal measure and unlike anything else that I've seen at TIFF this year. Definitely not for everyone, but the experience is worth it. Should be seen on a big screen.
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