Directed by Guy Maddin
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Zeitgeist Video)
A Canadian soldier is in Russia fighting a war and looking for his lost love, Iris. He finds another woman that looks exactly like her, Veronkha. They go to the front and fight in the trenches together. At first she rejects him, since she is married to someone else, but then she gets amnesia and realizes she loves him. Later, she changes her mind. In the film's silliest scene, her real husband loses his intestines and uses them to strangle a soldier. It's all done in a faux silent movie style, complete with intertitles and distressed film stock. The narration is intrusive, poorly voiced and unnecessary. The acting is barely tolerable.
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