
In a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home after a long absence towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house, room by room, and reaching his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) in her bedroom upstairs. His odyssey eventually bec... (Full plot summary below)
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In a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home after a long absence towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house, room by room, and reaching his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) in her bedroom upstairs. His odyssey eventually becomes an emotional tour, as the strange nooks and crannies of the house reveal more about the mysterious Pick family.
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| Shockya.comBrent SimonCharacteristically full of some beautiful and evocative images, Maddin's latest film seems doggedly intent on achieving art status merely through obfuscation. |
| Little White LiesWally HammondA bravura journey into a noirish nightmare world and a lock that even paid-up Maddinites won't be able to pick on a single viewing. |
| ViewLondonJennifer TateThis rousing and tormented monochrome tale of a deadbeat gangster making an unusual odyssey through his haunted home is sordid, sinister and bafflingly brilliant. |
| The ListEmma SimmondsKeyhole is an enchantment of chiaroscuro compositions which float across the screen like a dream; it's an acquired taste but pure cinema nevertheless. |
| Total FilmCarmen GrayThough self-referential to a fault, the deadpan humour, frayed logic and monochrome dazzle cast their own richly peculiar spell. |
| Seattle TimesMichael UpchurchPatric's performance is a deadpan treat. His can-do, take-charge character is in continual zany contrast to his surreal surroundings. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesFunny enough to be disarming even when it's spinning its wheels thematically. |
| Globe and MailLiam LaceyLike Maddin's melancholic and relatively more conventional "My Winnipeg," Keyhole is about a memory house, but one that is even more fragmented, mythical and elusive. |
| Movies.comDave WhiteIt's a story about stories, a dream about dreams and a movie about movies, the kind that rewards repeat viewings. |
| The PlaylistJames RocchiWith the locked and puzzling Keyhole, you get a sense of a filmmaker who's lost sight of how to take his audience along with him. |