Tales from the Gimli Hospital
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| Tales from the Gimli Hospital | |
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| Directed by | Guy Maddin |
| Produced by | Guy Maddin Stephen Snyder Greg Klymkiw |
| Starring | Kyle McCulloch Michael Gottli Angela Heck Margaret Anne McLeod Caroline Bonner |
| Music by | Laurence Mardon |
| Cinematography | Guy Maddin |
| Editing by | Guy Maddin |
| Release date(s) |  1988 |
| Running time | 72 min. |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
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Tales from the Gimli Hospital, directed by Guy Maddin, is a black-and-white 1988 psychodrama which incorporates elements of surrealism, black comedy, and expressionism.
[edit] Plot Synopsis
The film opens on two young children whose mother is dying in the present-day Gimli hospital. During a visit to see her, the children's Icelandic 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. In it, Einar (Kyle McCulloch) succumbs to a smallpox epidemic and is admitted to the Gimli hospital for treatment, where he meets his neighbor Gunnar (Michael Gottli). While both are at first pleased to have a friend nearby in their time of illness, the two men soon begin competing for the attentions and affections of the hospital's beautiful young nurses by telling their own increasingly strange and convoluted stories—a competition at which the hapless Einar is at a major disadvantage, and it soon becomes clear that the Gimli nurses (in particular the angelic Snjofrieder, played by Caroline Bonner) favor the more charming Gunnar. However, it is only when the two men begin exchanging late-night confidences, and a terrible secret is revealed, that their friendship is irrevocably destroyed, and tragec consequences ensue.
[edit] Awards and nominations
- Nominated: Best Original Screenplay - Guy Maddin
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