Woah, Woe, Woah!

Brand Upon The Brain! is the new film from the lens of wacked out auteur director Guy Maddin. After his previous, most mainstream film, 2003's The Saddest Music in the World - a fantastic movie, and my first glimpse of his work, Maddin has leapt out into the abyss with this silent, B&W meditation on the depths of the psyche plumbed through memory. It is seriously faaaaaaarrrrr out there!

One funny comment I read, said that Brand Upon The Brain! is for filmgoers who felt that David Lynch's Inland Empire was too transparent for them...

This is a gem for those into gemmology...

8 out of 5.