Keyhole

Dir. Guy Maddin. Starring Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini. 105 min. Special Presentation. Sept. 9, 5:30 p.m., Lightbox 1; Sept. 11, 12:30 p.m., AMC 3.

BY: Jason Anderson

GRID RATING: 8/10

Besides being the Winnipeg director’s self-proclaimed “ghosts-and-gangsters movie,” Keyhole is also one of cinema’s weirdest and funniest takes on Homer’s Odyssey. (There’s plenty of Joyce in the mix, too, and a little Abbott and Costello.) Jason Patric is terrific in the role of Ulysses, a gangland boss on a quest to revisit his past and reconstitute the family he had with wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini), one of many characters who may actually be deceased. Like so many of Maddin’s movies, Keyhole plays by its own rules and its own (dream) logic. But rarely has the director’s brand of surrealism been quite so bewitching, funny or erotically charged.