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- The Independent (London, England)
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- October 17, 2009
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New Films
FILM OF THE WEEK
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (1A)
Director Terry Gilliam
Starring Heath Ledger, Jude Law, Christopher Plummer
In Terry Gilliam's newest cinematic imaginarium, a man
(Christopher Plummer) who, a long time ago, earned immortality in a
wager with the Devil (Tom Waits) sets up his faded Victorian
travelling sideshow in the abandoned spaces and Homebase car-parks
of modern-day London. He offers a world "full of enchantment for
those with eyes to see it", but the few drunken revellers he manages
to attract seem not to have the requisite imagination. A shame,
because going through the mirror on Dr Parnassus's stage will magic
you into colourful landscapes that ...