Cowards bend the knee

DVD 2010

A hockey player for the Winnipeg Maroons, takes his pregnant girlfriend to a beauty salon that moonlights as an abortion clinic and leaves her (mid-procedure) for the salon owner's daughter. He then discovers that his new girlfriend can't be with a man until she avenges her father's murder.

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Abortion services Drama

Beauty operators Drama

Hockey players Drama

Man-woman relationships Drama

Murder Drama

More in this Genre:

Crime films Drama Feature films Film noir Silent films Subculture films Video recordings

Part of a Series:

Quintessential Guy Maddin box set Quintessential Guy Maddin!

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Description:

1 videodisc (64 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
monochrome
digital
optical
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: Not rated

Other Title:

Also known as: Blue hands [DVD]
Cowards bend the knee (Motion picture)

Notes:

Special features: audio commentary by Guy Maddin ; Love-Chaunt workbooks ; behind-the-scenes for The brand upon the brain ; photo archive ; artistic statement ; chracter sketches ; missing script excerpt ; essay "A note on hands."
Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation released in 2003
One disc from a 4 disc boxed set called "Quintessential Guy Maddin!"
Editor, John Gurdebeke
Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Tara Birtwhistle, Henry Mogatas, Amy Stewart, Louis Negin, Mike Bell, David Stuart Evans
DVD, NTSC ; full screen (1.33:1) presentation ; region 1
Silent with English intertitles

Control Number:

941128

UPC:

795975113236

Other Authors:

Dionisio, Melissa
Fehr, Darcy, 1974-
Maddin, Guy, 1956-
Power Plant (Art gallery)
Zeitgeist Films

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