Directed by Guy Maddin • Arthouse • 1992 • Canada • English
Starring Kyle McCulloch, Gosia Dobrowolska, Sarah Neville

Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in an Alpine village where the wary residents —adult, child and animal!—must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences. Bathed in lurid, luminescent tints, “Careful” resembles a vintage melodrama from another planet.