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Mood:
- AtmosphericStylizedOffbeatExcitingMind Bending
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Plot:
- Daring RescueHeroic MissionLegends and MythsTime TravelDangerLove and RomanceObsessionWooing more...
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Genres:
- FantasyIndependentAdventureRomance
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Place:
- CountrysideShip
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Style:
- Surreal
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousFantastic
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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, 1997
English
Canada
Profile of Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
The mood of Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is stylized, atmospheric, and mind bending. The plot centers around legends and myths, time travel, and a daring rescue. It is an independent, fantasy, and romance movie. Stylistically, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is surreal. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It takes place, at least partly, on a ship and in the countryside. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is based on a book.
Summary of Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Set in a blazing land where the sun ceaselessly shines, this dramatic fantasy examines love's darker aspects. After years of incarceration as a political prisoner, Peter Glahn (Nigel Whitney, who had his name removed from the credits because another actor redubbed his lines) finally returns to Mandragora via ship. During the voyage, he encounters the glamorous Julianna (Pascale Bussieres), and falls deeply in love. Before he can act upon it, the radiant beauty mysteriously disappears. Once home he goes to see his sister Amelia (Shelley Duval) on the family ostrich farm. Poor homely Amelia is pining for the love of snake-in-the-grass Dr. Solti (R.H. Thompson) who is busy controlling the lives of Juliana and Zephyr (Alice Krige), a fisherman's widow. Solti toys with these women, but he is actually in love with a statue of Venus, a magical sculpture that seems strangely drawn towards Zephyr. Continuing frustration causes Amelia's smouldering passion for Solti to erupt into a conflagration of grisly violence. A challenging film from idiosyncratic Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Canada |
| Release date: | 24 October 1997 |
| Runtime: | 91 min |
Cast and Crew
as Amelia Glahn
as Cain Ball
