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7.4
/10
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COWARDS BEND THE KNEE

Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands

Directed by Guy Maddin
Canada, 2003
Drama, Comedy, Avant-Garde
  • 6464 minutes

Synopsis

This fusion of fiction and biography based on the director’s own life focuses on a hockey player, Guy Maddin, whose life spirals out of control when his mother winds up in the hospital and his girlfriend, Veronica, gets pregnant and then asks for an abortion.

Synopsis

This fusion of fiction and biography based on the director’s own life focuses on a hockey player, Guy Maddin, whose life spirals out of control when his mother winds up in the hospital and his girlfriend, Veronica, gets pregnant and then asks for an abortion.