The Heart of the World
A mortician and an actor playing Christ—brothers locked in a rivalry for the heart of a scientist studying the Earth's core—find their personal drama eclipsed by a planetary crisis. The world is on the verge of a fatal heart attack, demanding a desperate, fantastical race against time. Guy Maddin compresses an epic of sci-fi, romance, and apocalyptic comedy into a breathless six-minute sprint. The film is a silent-movie-inspired frenzy where intimate desire and global salvation collide in a whirlwind of rapid-fire imagery and manic energy.
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📋 Film Details
| Year | 2000 |
| Country | Canada |
| Genre | Science Fiction, Comedy, Romance |
| Director | Guy Maddin |
| Runtime | 6 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 7.1/10 (102 votes) |
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🎬 MovieFinder's Take
Guy Maddin doesn't just make a film; he orchestrates a cinematic seizure of silent-era homage and punk-rock velocity. It's a dazzling, compressed epic that argues more can happen in six minutes than in most lifetimes.
What lingers after the final, frantic frame is the exhilarating conviction that cinema can still surprise, overwhelm, and reinvent itself in a heartbeat. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Guy Maddin
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Breathless, manic pace of a silent-film fantasia pushed to glorious extremes.
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