curio

Maybe there’s something in the frigid water, as both he and the town’s other beloved cult curio, Guy Maddin, make eccentric odes to their humble homeland.

Yet he wasn’t tyrannical about the afterlife of these dramatic curios.

"They are just very charismatic, very playful, very social, very curios and very intelligent and that's why people love them," she said.

In his review, the BBC's Nicholas Barber called it a "pretentious, portentous curio", akin to someone recalling a "crazy dream".

It’s wonderful that she’s working and seems to be having fun, but the subgenre is such a strange curio that one has to take stock at a certain point.