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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Maddin’s similarly stylized black-and-white dream-world uses deadpan narration, artificial sets, taboo comedy, and a deliberately antiquated texture to make its strange community feel like a corrupted folk memory.
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Why this pick
This compressed silent-film pastiche shares Gimli Hospital’s handmade monochrome imagery, feverish melodrama, archaic intertitles, and gleeful sense that catastrophe can be both grotesque and funny.
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A handmade nightmare framed as a cautionary tale, using constantly mutating stop-motion spaces and folk-horror dread to create the same intimate, diseased-storybook atmosphere.
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Why this pick
Its boxy black-and-white frame, period stylization, isolated male rivalry, and escalating maritime grotesquerie offer a more polished but comparably claustrophobic and darkly comic vision of madness.
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Why this pick
This austere black-and-white Estonian folktale combines rural superstition, uncanny creatures, deadpan cruelty, and antique photographic beauty in a mood close to a cursed communal legend.
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01 / THE STORY
The film opens on two young children whose mother is dying in the present-day Rural Municipality of Gimli, Manitoba hospital. During a visit to see her, the children's New Iceland grandmother launches into the grim and convoluted tale of Einar the Lonely, a patient in a far-distant-past version of the same hospital—in "a Gimli we no longer know," as the grandmother puts it. The rest of the film consists of Einar's story.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Lord Dufferin
