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Critic wrangle: "My Winnipeg."
IFC: Indie Eye — ... "[E]ven though I suspect that some of its more outlandish assertions are at least partly grounded in fact, Mr. Maddin is engaged less in historical inquiry than in hallucinatory autobiography," writes A.O. Scott at the New York Times. "[W]hatever its connection to the actual, transitory city, Mr. Maddin's Winnipeg -- 'My Winnipeg' -- is as real as any work of art can be." "By turns madcap and painfully nostalgic, it's at heart a mournful fugue to origins, aging, and something like forgiveness, familial and civic," claims ...

My Winnipeg.
GreenCine Daily — ... "Much as he may dream of taking that one-way rail journey to somewhere else, Mr Maddin can no more spurn Winnipeg than it can disown him," writes AO Scott in the New York Times. "But his real point - and, for admirers of this brilliant and idiosyncratic artist, the true source of the movie's interest - is that Winnipeg explains him." ...