Monday, December 22, 2008

Simon the Magician

d/  Ildiko Enyedi

A delightfully oddball film. 

A Czech seer is hired by the Paris police to help solve a murder. He does then spends several days frabbing around the city courting a young woman,  fending off celebrity and getting involved with another magician in a live burial contest which updates an early christian legend.

This worked because of the enigmatic lead performance. It tickled me all the way through and ended on a sweetly sentimental note.

Great fun.

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