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THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is Guy Maddin's ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins (after a prologue on how to take a bath) with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen within. Suddenly, impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders into their company and tells his tale of escaping from a fearsome clan of cave dwellers. From here, Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson take us high into the air, around the world, and into dreamscapes, spinning tales of amnesia, captivity, deception and murder, skeleton women and vampire bananas. Playing like some glorious meeting between Italo Calvino, Sergei Eisenstein and a perverted six year-old child, THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is Maddin's grand ode to lost cinema. Created with the help of master poet John Ashbery, the film features Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Maria de Medeiros, Jacques Nolot, Adele Haenel, Amira Casar and Elina Lowensohn as a cavalcade of misfits, thieves and lovers, all joined in the joyful delirium of the kaleidoscopic viewing experience.
Original Release
10/07/2015
US Release
10/07/2015
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Roy Dupuis | Cesare |
Clara Furey | Margot |
Louis Negin | Mr. Lanyon / Marv / Smithy / Mars / Organizer |
Udo Kier | Pharmacist / Count Yugh / The Butler / The Dead Father / Guard |
Gregory Hlady | A Husband / Jarvis / Dr. Deane |
Mathieu Amalric | Ostler / Thadeusz M___ |
Noël Burton | The Captain / Wolf / Pilot |
Geraldine Chaplin | Aunt Chance / The Master Passion / Nursemaid |
Paul Ahmarani | Speedy / Dr. Deng |
Caroline Dhavernas | Gong |
Directors
Writers
Kim Morgan, Evan Johnson, Guy Maddin, Bob Kotyk, John Ashbery
Cast
Name | Character |
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Roy Dupuis | Cesare |
Clara Furey | Margot |
Louis Negin | Mr. Lanyon / Marv / Smithy / Mars / Organizer |
Udo Kier | Pharmacist / Count Yugh / The Butler / The Dead Father / Guard |
Gregory Hlady | A Husband / Jarvis / Dr. Deane |
Mathieu Amalric | Ostler / Thadeusz M___ |
Noël Burton | The Captain / Wolf / Pilot |
Geraldine Chaplin | Aunt Chance / The Master Passion / Nursemaid |
Paul Ahmarani | Speedy / Dr. Deng |
Caroline Dhavernas | Gong |
Jacques Nolot | Minister of the Interior / Bent |
Slimane Dazi | Baron Pappenheim |
Maria de Medeiros | Clotilde / The Blind Mother |
Charlotte Rampling | The Ostler's Mother |
Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles | Pancho (as Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon) / Saplingjack 1 / Listening Man / Pancho |
Andreas Apergis | Dr. Warren |
Sophie Desmarais | Jane Lanyon |
Ariane Labed | The Chambermaid / Alicia Warlock |
Karine Vanasse | Florence Labadie |
Romano Orzari | Dr. Moarte-Joc / Squid Thief / Madman |
Producers
Name | Role |
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David Christensen | Executive Producer |
François-Pierre Clavel | Executive Producer |
Jody Shapiro | Executive Producer |
Niv Fichman | Executive Producer |
Guy Maddin | Producer |
Pascal Barneville | Producer |
Olivia Cooper Hadjian | Producer |
Jean Du Toit | Producer |
Bastien Ehouzan | Producer |
Phoebe Greenberg | Producer |
Emmanuelle-Claude Heroux | Producer |
Liz Jarvis | Producer |
Phyllis Laing | Producer |
Penny Mancuso | Producer |
Alexandre Perrier | Producer |
Jean-Marc Vicariot | Producer |