Film-loving New Yorkers, if you haven’t caught Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room yet, we highly recommend putting whatever evening plans you may have on hold and heading to the Film Forum to see this masterpiece. Recently featured at the 53rd New York Film Festival, it appears that the film’s all too brief theatrical run at the West Village outpost ends today.

Perhaps the closest you’ll get to experiencing a drug-induced hallucinatory experience without actually taking anything, The Forbidden Room takes viewers down a cinematic rabbit hole. Opening with a how-to on taking a bath, the viewer then finds themselves aboard a submarine among a panicked crew who fear depressurizing an explosive jelly aboard the ship. A mysterious woodsman somehow boards the vessel and from there the journey proceeds into a forest where a young maiden needs rescuing. The films continues on and on like this, with narratives nested in narratives. But, come the film’s conclusion, all the strings somehow resolve themselves.

Along Maddin’s maddening, mind-blowing adventure some familiar faces appear, including Charlotte Rampling, Udo Kier, Mathieu Amalric, John Ashberry, Ariane Labed and many more. Some play multiple characters in the film’s many plot twists.

Visually, the film is also incredibly striking. Co-director Evan Johnson and production designer Galan Johnson worked with Maddin to replicate and reinvent film techniques from early cinema. It’s an absolute feast for the eyes.

Tune into the trailer below, but more importantly head over to the Film Forum’s website now and pick up a ticket to see this magnificent cinematic work before it departs.

(The Forbidden Room is a Kino Lorber release)