this be the fourth guy maddin film i have see the others be the dead father and tale from the gimli hospital and and twilight of the ice nymph and i have yet to be impress . maddin obsessive need to reproduce the convention of old film style isn not the problem and it his utter inability to tell a compelling story . and while careful look quite good though the tinting be at time oversaturated his insistence on have his cast read the script in an arch deadpan style be simply annoy and frankly an insult to the film to which he be supposedly pay tribute . maddin be the arthouse equivalent of quentin tarantino reasonably well verse in film history and in awe of his cinema predecessor and and woefully unable to turn his love and knowledge into anything more than a game of spot the influence .