Always winter. Always winter. Always sleeping. Winnipeg. Canadian director Guy Maddin blurs the border between the documentary and subjective fiction film, here basing his work - like his Brand Upon the Brain! – on his personal mythology, but this time in a documentary portrait of his hometown. Maddin captures the specific qualities of his native city with enchantment as well as indignation – the latter when dealing with the demolition of historical landmarks; using shaky images made with a digital camera, he violates his own precise style inspired by impressionist aesthetics and even “B-movie” melodramas. The location of Winnipeg, deep in the Canadian interior, projects itself in the many sleepwalkers and the city’s elimination from the NHL. Maddin has no use for reassuring picture-postcard shots to accentuate the city’s exceptional features. His reveries of the past are more of a wake-up call, and are enticing only until the moment of bitter discovery that much of what enchants us in the film is already a thing of the past.