Storyline
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
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Cast
Karine Vanasse, Arthur Holden, Neil Napier, Maria de Medeiros, Elina Löwensohn, Romano Orzari, Udo Kier, Kyle Gatehouse, Caroline Dhavernas, Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Rampling, Miguel Eduardo Cueva, Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Lemke, Darcy Fehr, Alexander Bisping, Judith Baribeau, John Churchill, Paul Ahmarani, Noël Burton, Ariane Labed, Jean-François Stévenin, Andreas Apergis, Slimane Dazi, Gregory Hlady, Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles, Sophie Desmarais, Kent McQuaid, André Wilms, Christophe Paou, Adèle Haenel, Céline Bonnier, Lewis Furey, Victoria Diamond, Mistaya Hemingway, Cynthia Ekoe, Sienna Mazzone, Vasco Bailly-Gentaud, Éric Robidoux, Amira Casar, Graham Ashmore, Kathia Rock, Luce Vigo, Kim Morgan, Marie Brassard, Angela La Muse Senyshyn, Kimmi Melnychuk, Melissa Trainor, Pamela Iveta, Catherine Treskow, Matthew Comeau, Alexandre Skeret, Sherpa Macilu, Marie-Sophie Roy, Victoire Du Bois, Jacques Nolot
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Reviews
100
Slant Magazine
Its utter indulgence in esoterica paradoxically leaves it most vulnerable to the beating heart of this great artist of self-therapy.
91
The Forbidden Room is a cinephile’s delight, another Maddin dream fantasia that’s visually distressed, suffused in feverish melodrama, and strangely poetic. Surrender yourself to its demented genius. The Forbidden Room will trap you in its bewitching spell, and you’ll be better for it.
91
For those attuned to Maddin’s goofy sense of humor, it’s easily the funniest movie he’s ever made—a series of several dozen comic shorts strung together on a ludicrous clothesline. The only downside is that the experience, at just shy of two hours, can be a trifle exhausting.
90
The Forbidden Room is a tour de force that takes Maddin’s ambition through a maze of magical melodrama.
80
CineVue
The Forbidden Room (2015) is Maddin's aesthetic nearing critical mass, a whimsical, genre-spanning opus that demonstrates the totality of his enigmatic style.
