Cowards Bend the Knee
Directed by Guy Maddin
Produced by Power Plant
A darkly surreal, melancholic romance set in a morally murky Winnipeg underworld, where desire and trauma collide in a fever dream of obsession and unresolved vengeance.
When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged.
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