Magic Mirror

Name: Magic Mirror
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013-04-22

Documentary1h 15m

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Storyline

Magic Mirror combines a re-staging of the French Surrealist artist Claude Cahun’s black and white photographs with selected extracts from her book Aveux Non Avenus (Confessions Denied). In Surrealist kaleidoscopic fashion the film creates a weave between image and word, exploring the links between Cahun’s photographs and writing as well as between those of the films of Sarah Pucill, as both artists share similar iconography and concerns.

Details

DirectorSarah Pucill

ReleasedApr 22, 2013

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Reviews

5 reviews · 4 critics

2 fresh · 2 rotten

Matt Zoller Seitz

RTNew York TimesMay 25, 2007

A droll comedy about the impossibility of shaking the burdens of your dreams and obligations.

Nathan Lee

RTVillage VoiceMay 23, 2007

Based on a novel by Augustina Bessa- Lus, a frequent de Oliveira collaborator, the film is perversely textual, an endlessly talking picture seemingly addressed to no one but itself.

Ray Bennett

RTThe Hollywood ReporterOct 12, 2005

Oliveira's touch is sure and the result is an atmospheric piece of work that lingers in the mind.

Boyd van Hoeij

RTeuropean-films.netOct 12, 2005

If you have never loved de Oliveira, this film will be a hard sell, even though it is more lyrical than most of his previous work.