Brand Upon the Brain!
Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters
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Guy Maddin reluctantly returns to his childhood home, an abandoned Canadian island, where his parents ran an orphanage. As Guy fulfills his dying mother's request to paint the lighthouse which served as the orphanage, memories of strange events there overpower him. An undercover investigation by child author/detective Wendy & a revolt by the repressed children, blew open a cover-up by Guy's parents. Wendy disguised herself as her brother Chance and discovered that Maddin's inventor father performed outré scientific experiments on the orphans.
Rating: Rating: 7.3/10 (3.7K)
time Duration: 95 Minutes
Calender Release Date: Sep 24, 2008
Country: Canada,USA
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  • Stars: Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Maya Lawson
  • Director(s): Guy Maddin
  • Writer(s): Guy Maddin, Louis Negin (narration)
  • Plot Keywords: avant garde, orphanage, island, childhood memory, surrealism
  • Production Company: The Film Company

Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

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