Careful Moulin Rouge

Vintage film fan Maddin channels the strange magic of German mountain movies in Careful, screened with one of the last great silent pictures, E. A. Dupont's Moulin Rouge.

"Utterly weird, subtly macabre, and utterly compelling."ÛTime Out

MaddinÌs most hysteria-based film, Careful is shot as though it dates from 1929 and tinted to evoke the luminous feel of early two-strip Technicolor. Set in the sleepy Alpine village of Tolzbad, it mimics the German mountain films of the 1920s, overlaying sexual perversion and Oedipal lust onto simple village folk who live in constant fear of setting off an avalanche if they talk too loudly or behave recklessly. (1992; 100 mins.)

A British film from a legendary German director shot in part on location in Paris, E. A. Dupont's Moulin Rouge is among the sublime last gasps of silent cinema, telling of a French aristocratÌs erotic fascination with his fianc»eÌs mother. (1928; 93 mins.)