Sundance 2015: Guy Maddin’s THE FORBIDDEN ROOM Gets 3 Motion Posters and 5 Teaser Trailers

Five new motion posters and teaser trailers have been released for director Guy Maddin‘s (Keyhole) latest foray into surreal madness, The Forbidden Room, which is set to have its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Rather than struggle to come up with my own synopsis as to what this movie is all about, I’ll leave it to the synopsis contained in the press release:

If Canadian wunderkind Guy Maddin (MY WINNIPEG, THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD) is Winnipeg’s own living film legend, THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is his ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins (after a prologue on how to take a bath) with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen within. Suddenly, impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders into their company and tells his tale of escaping from a fearsome clan of cave dwellers. From here, Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson take us high into the air, around the world, and into dreamscapes, spinning tales of amnesia, captivity, deception and murder, skeleton women and vampire bananas. Playing like some glorious meeting between Italo Calvino, Sergei Eisenstein and a perverted six year-old child, THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is Maddin’s grand ode to lost cinema. Created with the help of master poet John Ashberry, the film features Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Maria de Medeiros, Jacques Nolot, Adèle Haenel, Amira Casar & Elina Löwensohn as a cavalcade of misfits, thieves and lovers, all joined in the joyful delirium of the kaleidoscopic viewing experience. 

Take a look below for the teasers followed by the motion posters:

The Forbidden Room — Teaser 02 from Guy Maddin on Vimeo.

The Forbidden Room — Teaser 03 from Guy Maddin on Vimeo.

The Forbidden Room — Teaser 04 from Guy Maddin on Vimeo.

The Forbidden Room — Teaser 05 from Guy Maddin on Vimeo.

The Forbidden Room — Teaser 06 from Guy Maddin on Vimeo.

The Forbidden Room — a living poster from Guy Maddin on Vimeo.