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SNOWMAN’S LAND

GUY Maddin’s films are always delightful, but his latest, “My Winnipeg,” has an added treat for film buffs: It features Ann Savage!

Yes, the very same Ann Savage who is a member of my Cult Hall of Fame for her sizzling portrayal of Vera, the cigarette-puffing femme fatale in Edgar G. Ulmer’s B-noir masterwork “Detour” (1945).

Maddin’s love-hate relationship with his birthplace in frigid Canada is the driving force behind “My Winnipeg.” It’s called a documentary but isn’t really.

Newsreel footage is interwoven with Maddin’s unique retro-cinema, which harkens back to the days when movies were silent and black-and-white.

Often, it is impossible to tell when fact becomes fiction, which is the way Maddin wants it.

Maddin narrates, Darcy Fehr appears as the filmmaker-to-be, and Savage – now 87 – has a lot of fun as Maddin’s overbearing mom, who is co-star of a TV show called “Ledge Man.”

In that show, the same unfortunate man (Fehr again) is talked out of a suicide leap each week. (And no, we don’t need a 2008 version of the show on Fox.)

“My Winnipeg” is the third film in which Maddin has turned autobiographical, the others being “Brand Upon the Brain!” and “Cowards Bend the Knee.”

“Snowy, sleepwalking Winnipeg,” he laments. “I must leave it. I must leave it. I must leave now. But how to escape one’s city?”

A vital question indeed – one that even Guy Maddin can’t answer.

vam@nypost.com

MY WINNIPEG

Cold, hard facts.Running time: 80 minutes. Not rated (mature themes). At the IFC Center, Sixth Avenue and Third Street.