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The Forbidden Room

The Forbidden Room

2015
Romance, Comedy
2h 10m
An apparently chaotic, yet always significant nightmare with countless fantastic plotlines inspired by real, imaginary and photographic memories of films from the silent era now lost.
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The Forbidden Room

2015
Romance, Comedy
2h 10m
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Avg Percentile 61.41% from 251 total ratings

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Rated 20 Apr 2015
97
95th
If silent movies were a person and that person had a high fever, this is the dreams that person would have.
Rated 19 Mar 2016
94
94th
It would be hard or me to see this as anything other than Maddin's Magnum Opus, even if it ultimately might not quite be my favorite of his films per se, if for no other reason than by virtue of it simply being the "most" Guy Maddin movie ever, in every sense of the word. If it's sort of overwhelming and exhausting at times, it's in the best way possible, and clearly by design. It also has maybe one of the greatest casts ever, even if i'm still not sure where Elina Lowensohn was.
Rated 26 Dec 2015
73
80th
Several years later, including watching films by David Lynch, Maya Deren, Jack Smith (Flaming Creatures) and Luis Bunuel, the *Be Kind, Rewind* characters embrace Dadaism and decide to make an original "silent" film in their "Sweded" style. Fandor uses "Russian Doll" to describe the nature of the dream-like plotting and I agree with that. Cool visuals.
Rated 13 Feb 2015
90
93rd
Maddin, just like the "book of crescendos" in the movie, makes a crescendo of his cinematic oeuvre by showing the fantasies in different layers of time and space. He creates a holistic atmosphere by connecting every setting and age through common references of desire and love. Although it sometimes looks cheap, I adore his visual style. Far more crazy than any work of Lynch.
Rated 26 Jun 2021
94
95th
One big mind-fuck of a multi-level masturbation metaphor. This guy can't just shoot a porno he has to recreate a dozen early films with increasingly abstract psycho-sexual layers to get off. Well it looks amazing, the narrative structure is bonkers, it's mildly creepy but mostly hilarious. So far the strangest film I've ever seen.
Rated 06 Aug 2016
1
3rd
I knew I would hate this from the first few seconds. I'll leave this as a placeholder for my future self to revisit and retry
Rated 26 Jul 2017
85
85th
One of those rare films that's easier to appreciate if you understand what the director's trying to do or what the concept behind it is before diving in (or maybe if you're off your face). I wasn't really held by many of the individual strands, but the way everything intersects and gets tangled up in the same shallow, infernal space is completely hypnotic.
Rated 22 Feb 2017
95
96th
A goddamn masterful trip through film. ASWANG!!
Rated 28 Feb 2016
19
99th
Star Rating: ★★★★★
Rated 06 Jun 2016
55
30th
Liked the first hour, was very over it after that. It's still neat enough that I would recommend it to anyone who wants to watch something weird.
Rated 05 Mar 2016
60
89th
While it's not, The Forbidden Room (2015) plays as a cut/paste job of silents, early talkies and cult films to tell it's narrative. A narrative which unfortunately doesn't capture enough interest. Instead I dug this as the art film as it is! As a lover of antique movies all the inter-titles, faded colors and just about every visual expression into the world of classic movies, this was pretty awesome! And that's coming from someone who usually doesn't get a hard-on for the experimental. Surreal!
Rated 12 Mar 2016
88
92nd
Dreamlike visuals and sometimes dark, terrifying music/sounds makes this probably my best feature film in that category. My first take on Guy Maddin. I would prefer that it was more comprehensible, than had it's own logic.
Rated 29 Mar 2016
82
35th
Too bizarre for this guy.
Rated 24 Jul 2016
60
27th
My first experience with Maddin and I think I did it wrong- It was completely impenetrable. Some solutions: A) Don't be sober next time B) Take a bath.
Rated 24 Feb 2015
76
60th
14. !f Kanyon: Guy Maddin gibi zaten yeterinde "tuhaf" bir yönetmenin beyin kıvrımlarının arasında dolaşmak gibi. Darmadağınık, şaşırtıcı, biraz yorucu ama şaşırtıcı çekilde de eğlenceli.
Rated 19 Feb 2020
84
89th
True art.
Rated 01 Aug 2021
75
59th
I hadn't felt the indescribable feeling I saw Twin Peaks: The Return, until I saw this. This felt like watching someone die in real time while telling a fairytale.
Rated 12 Sep 2020
79
82nd
Beautiful artistic journey, expanding the boundaries of X muse. First half held me captivated, but felt a bit tired near the end. Not easy to digest.
Rated 20 Nov 2020
90
71st
Weirdest movie ever seen. Rly experimental cinema, can't say I've understood much
Rated 16 Apr 2021
10
2nd
Absolutely awful crap.
Rated 11 Jul 2021
80
81st
Hi, wtf, bye! (Or a 1234556 page essay no one needs or wants)
Rated 23 Aug 2022
85
84th
One of the few films I've ever seen where cinema is truly its single language, adorned with sketches of stories with familiar feelings but unburdened by their necessity to resolve or connect beyond plunging you deeper into the dream, all is in service of the form, it revels in absurdity and disortion without threatening to become simply amorphous thanks to a pristine adherence to traditional form when necessary, and a gleeful scattering of the particles when not. Funnier than you'd think too.
Rated 19 Feb 2023
40
6th
One of those times where an artist is daring the viewer not to 'get' the work; my ego is sorely tempted to pretend to like it, just so I can pat myself on the back and call myself a real cinephile. But in truth this was a hard watch, an exercise in extreme self-discipline just to make it all the way to its meaningless ending. Points for style and acting, yes, but this film disappears up its own arse.

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