DVD: My Winnipeg (12A)

My Winnipeg is Canadian film-maker Guy Maddin's love-hate letter to his cold, isolated hometown.

An eerie "docu-fantasia", it links his family into Winnipegers' predilections for spiritualism, ice hockey and gambling. It has the feel of David Lynch directing Soviet montage – never more so than during the section devoted to the Winnipeg general strike of 1919. The dreamlike action is narrated by Maddin as he summons the will to leave the city he grew up in. Extras include an enlightening Q&A with Maddin and the short film In Case I Disappear, about Eden in Northern Ireland, which won the "Your Winnipeg" competition for film-makers to make a short film about their own hometowns.