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Cowards Bend The Knee, Or The Blue Hands

2003, Movie, NR, 63 mins

Cowards Bend The Knee, Or The Blue Hands: Review

Winnipeg auteur Guy Maddin created this hysterically overheated silent film as a museum installation to be viewed through a series of 10 consecutive peepholes, all situated below eye level, requiring viewers to bend their knees (much like the cowards of the title) to view the segments of a "10-part penny dreadful." Oddly, once removed from the museum setting and strung together into an hourlong feature, it's Maddin's most cohesive narrative. The setting is a glob of ejaculate... read more leave a comment