The Dead Father (film)

The Dead Father is a Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin, and his debut film. The short film tells a surrealist story of a Sons feelings of anger, sadness, and inadequacy after the return of his Dead Father. The Dead Father is shot in black and white on 16mm film and features Maddins usual use on the stylistic conventions of silentera cinema.

This development seems promising at first the Dead Father lays motionless on the kitchen table and in his widows bed but it soon becomes clear, as the Son puts it, that the Dead Father does not seem to be dead in the traditional sense, with brief recoveries during which he makes various vague requests. The Son resists at first, but then gives up and attempts to make small talk with his Dead Father and even share a meal. The Dead Father enlists the Son in errands but is disappointed at the Sons inability to fulfill his simple requests for fish. The haunting continues in this lackadaisical manner, and it becomes clear that the Dead Father is mostly spending his days at the home of a new and better family down the street.The Son is soon distressed to find that his Dead Father has fallen sick, and the Dead Father appears driven to death by this illness film scholar William Beard has suggested that this section of the film is a flashback sequence. ........

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