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After 4 years in jail, Peter (Nigel Whitmey, voiced by Ross McMillan)
returns to the ostrich farm of his sister Amelia (Shelley Duvall), who is
in constant fights with her farmhand Cain Ball (Frank Gorshin), who wants
to buy the farm, and on the other hand is hopelessly in love with the
mysterious Doctor Solti (R.H.Thomson), an inventor and mesmerist who
doesn't seem to care too much about her. Peter himself is in love with
treacherous Juliana (Pascale Bussières), who has promised to come after
him eventually, to stay with him, but while waiting for her, he meets
Zephyr (Alice Krige), a pregnant woman waiting for her (possibly drowned)
husband ... who falls head over heels in love with him, so she sacrifices
her ring to Doctor Solti's statue of Venus to make him hers. They soon
have sex, but he confesses to her that he doesn't love her in the least
... Eventually, Amelia and Peter are invited to Doctor Solti's place,
where Peter has to find out Solti's consort is actually his own sweetheart
Juliana. That and the fact that Solti treats Amelia like shit make Peter
lose his cool, and he destroys the Doctor's lab. When he makes a getaway,
Juliana follows him, and ultimately they make love in a tree. Then Zephyr
comes by, and Juliana - who knows about Peter's sexual encounter with her
- breaks her heart on purpose ... which makes Peter realize he has not, as
he thought, conquered Juliana's heart, but she's still under the Doctor's
spell ... Zephyr goes to the Doctor, since it was his statue she has
sacrificed her ring to, to demand it back, but he instead gives her a
bleak vision of her own future with child should she not serve the statue
as a slave, and ultimately, Zephyr has the statue smash her rather than
becoming its slave. Having come to terms with the fact that Doctor Solti
doesn't love her, Amelia decides to leave her home, but not before getting
even with Cain Ball - by driving a nail through his forehead and burning
his shed ... Overcome by all kinds of emotions, Peter demands a showdown
with Doctor Solti, when they both find Amelia buried under the dirt, and
now Solti is Amelia's only hope. Ultimately, Amelia is nursed back to
health, but Peter realizes it's his fate to stay behind with her to take
care of her while Solti and Juliana - who finally has discovered her true
love for Peter - leave the region for good ... Twilight of
the Ice Nymphs is, I'm afraid to say, Guy Maddin's weakest film: Its
story seems somehow pointless, its high drama seems to be going nowhere,
and Maddin's direction is not as whimsical and inventive as in his other
movies. That said, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is still plenty
weird, a fairy tale-like story that boasts primary colours that look like
some lab-mistake but actually give the film an other-worldly atmosphere,
while the directors morbid fantasies and tongue-in-cheek approach are
visible in pretty much every frame. And Maddin's direction, while not
re-inventing and re-interpreting silent and early sound film techniques
for a change and missing the freshness of his usually old-fashioned
approach, still looks like something from another planet. It's just that
the plot of the film doesn't click quite as well as in other instances ...
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