Cowards Bend the Knee
It's time for hockey! There's no telling what will happen when the Winnipeg Maroons' own star player Guy becomes embroiled in the twisted lives of Meta, a vengeful Chinoise, and her hairdresser/abortionist mother Liliom. Innocent Veronica, caught in the middle, is treated to both services! Meanwhile poor, dithering, cowardly Guy can only stand by and watch.
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 1h 4m
- Released
- 2003
- Country
- Canada
Details
Release year: 2003
Storyline
It's time for hockey! There's no telling what will happen when the Winnipeg Maroons' own star player Guy becomes embroiled in the twisted lives of Meta, a vengeful Chinoise, and her hairdresser/abortionist mother Liliom. Innocent Veronica, caught in the middle, is treated to both services! Meanwhile poor, dithering, cowardly Guy can only stand by and watch.
Top credits
Darcy Fehr — Guy Maddin- Melissa Dionisio — Meta
Amy Stewart — Veronica- Tara Birtwhistle — Liliom
Did you know
• Originally presented as a gallery installation at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2003, and then two months later at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, in which viewers watch the movie through ten peepholes lining a wall, each one revealing a different six-minute chapter of the film.
• Alice Krige was Maddin's first choice to play Liliom, but was unable to appear in the film due to an illness.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $25,860
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $7,030 (2004-08-15)
User reviews
a film loaded with libido and hyper-consciousness, a hallucination of abortions, murder and hockey
Out-Lynch's Lynch
So you think you have seen a few strange films in your time, eh?
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Silent
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
- Color
- Black and White