Keyhole

Guardian“Dreamily mesmerising...” A restless montage of strange, disturbing, inventive images, apparently channelled from both the subconscious or the history of cinema. In this world, they're the same thing.

The Observer“A genuine curiosity...” Shot in black-and-white, Keyhole is a genuine curiosity, rather less interesting perhaps than I've made it sound, and an example of that narrow sub-genre, whimsical noir.

The Independent“Retro-noirish fantasia on a gangster picture...” Keyhole isn't in the same league [as My Winnipeg (2007)], though it's not a movie that could have been made by anyone else...

Little White Lies“Totally idiosyncratic, admirably dense, utterly baffling...” A 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...

Time Out film“A beautiful, exhausting, typically idiosyncratic film...” ‘Keyhole’ is still too self-referential, too hermetic and too glacial to offer much enjoyment beyond the gorgeous monochrome visuals...

Empire“Only fitfully compels...” Takes a potentially sky-high concept — mobsters stand off in a house that turns out to be haunted — then twists it via surrealism, B-movie pastiches and haunting digital images into a fever dream of memory and loss...

Total Film “A loopily surreal twist on early-era noir...” Though self-referential to a fault, the deadpan humour, frayed logic and monochrome dazzle cast their own richly peculiar spell...