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Amos Lassen wrote on 06/25/2012:

“Keyhole” directed by Guy Maddin is a very loose adaptation of “The Odyssey”. Ulysses Pike (Jason Patric) is a gang leader who returns home with a nearly drowned girl over his shoulder. This is his first visit home in a very long time and wants to tour the house. He is joined by a girl (Brooke Passion) and a bound and gagged hostage, Manners (David Wotner), who happens to be his son. Ulysses wants to reach the attic bedroom where Hyacinth (Isabella Rosselini), his wife is chained to her bed next to her naked father (Louis Negin). However, there are kinds of twists and turns to maneuver in the house.
The film looks at family, sexuality, the weather—themes that Maddin often deals with and this is a totally different kind of film than what we usually see. Using rooms like scenes we move from one to the others. The schematic of the movie is the house which represents the mind and we all sleepwalk through it. The film is in black and white with strategic lighting. Every image presented is part of the common past of the characters. When Ulysses’s gang turns on him about halfway through the movie, he is forced to deal with his own survival and here we get yet another theme. This is an interesting look at gangsters and ghosts living together in the same house.