Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home.
Direction
Maddin's sepia-soaked surrealism—every frame looks illegally vintage.
Cinematography
Digital pretending to be decaying nitrate; gorgeous fraud.
Acting
Jason Patric's hollowed-out menace, Isabella Rossellini's mournful patience.
Director
Guy Maddin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Maddin shot this in digital then aggressively degraded it to mimic his usual 16mm decay aesthetic—analog nostalgia as performance.
The house's endless locked rooms reference both Homer's Odyssey (Ulysses, duh) and Maddin's own childhood home in Winnipeg, demolished then obsessively reconstructed in memory.
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