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Release Date: 1988

Cast: Linda Schinkel, Margaret Anne McLeod, Don Hewak, Caroline Bonner, Ron Eyolfson, Donna Szöke, Kyle McCulloch, Angela Heck, Michael Gottli, Chris Johnson, Tiffany Taylor

Categories: Movies, Black-And-White, Fantasy, Psychological Thriller, Horror, Thriller, Period Piece

Tales from the Gimli Hospital, directed by Guy Maddin, is a black-and-white 1988 psychodrama which incorporates elements of surrealism, black comedy, and expressionism. The film opens on two young children whose mother is dying in the present-day Gimli hospital. During a visit to see her, the children's Icelandic grandmother launches into the grim and convoluted tale of Einar the Lonely, a patient in a far-distant-past version of the same hospital—in "a Gimli we no longer know," as the grandmother puts it. The rest of the film consists of Einar's story. In it, Einar (Kyle McCulloch)... MORE

Tales from the Gimli Hospital, directed by Guy Maddin, is a black-and-white 1988 psychodrama which incorporates elements of surrealism, black comedy, and expressionism. The film opens on two young children whose mother is dying in the present-day Gimli hospital. During a visit to see her, the children's Icelandic grandmother launches into the grim and convoluted tale of Einar the Lonely, a patient in a far-distant-past version of the same hospital—in "a Gimli we no longer know," as the grandmother puts it. The rest of the film consists of Einar's story. In it, Einar (Kyle McCulloch) succumbs to a smallpox epidemic and is admitted to the Gimli hospital for treatment, where he meets his neighbor Gunnar (Michael Gottli). While both are at first pleased to have a friend nearby in their time of illness, the two men soon begin competing for the attentions and affections of the hospital's beautiful young nurses by telling their own increasingly strange and convoluted stories—a competition at which the hapless Einar is at a major disadvantage, and it soon becomes clear that the Gimli nurses (in particular the angelic Snjofrieder, played by Caroline Bonner) favor the more charming Gunnar. LESS