This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
The only thing stranger than Guy Maddin’s fabulous filmic fable about a legless beer baroness, a bizarre love triangle, a deeply dysfunctional family and a bizarre Depression-era songwriting contest?
The fact that a major label possessed enough taste to release this undeniably uncommercial compendium of heart-rending nostalgia, genre-crossing wistfulness and melodramatic melody, liberally laced with snappy snippets of distinctive dialogue.
