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Issue 58: Magical Realism

April 2018

Jane and the Magic of Being There

Kate Blair·
Issue 58: Magical Realism
Through a stirring bit of cinematic alchemy, director Brett Morgen reconstructs Jane Goodall’s journey through Gombe, while also giving us a glimpse into her thoughts, aspirations, and memories.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Universal Pictures

At Least It’ll Give Us Something to Complain About

Andrew Root·
Issue 58: Magical Realism
I feel like an apologist for complex filmmaking when I ask you to give Scott Pilgrim vs. the World a second watch, but perhaps I shouldn’t. This is a film that was made for people like me.
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Behind the Curtain: The Double Life of Véronique

David Braga·
Issue 58: Magical Realism
By never explicitly stating what his movie means, Krzysztof Kieślowski forces us to use what he’s left us to make our own meaning.
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From Her To Eternity

Karina Wolf·
Issue 58: Magical Realism
Amid the world’s surfeit of impressions and images, distractions and demands, Wings of Desire shows us how to recognize the real and the urgent.
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Indistinguishable from Magic

Ross McIndoe·
Issue 58: Magical Realism
Much like Gabriel García Márquez before them, Her and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind insert elements of the magical into reality, drawing no line between the two, making the marvelous real, and the real marvelous.
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Inexplicable, Unpredictable, and Absolutely Beyond Control

Victoria Large·
Issue 58: Magical Realism
Danny Boyle's A Life Less Ordinary is so odd, and yet so memorable, that it feels more like a vivid dream than a cookie-cutter Hollywood love story.
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Love and Otherness

Aïcha Thiam·
Issue 58: Magical Realism
On The Shape of Water and “My Life with the Wave”
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3 Women | Twentieth Century Fox

Only in Dreams: Magic and Identity in Robert Altman’s 3 Women

Ethan Warren·
Issue 58: Magical Realism
The fabric of reality in Robrt Altman's 3 Women feels slightly warped, as though the events are obscured by the heat haze radiating off the Southern California desert.
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The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower

Corbin Dewitt·
Issue 58: Magical Realism
Alfonso Cuaron's A Little Princess and Agnieszka Holland's The Secret Garden both insist that the aliveness of the world is irreducible and everywhere—that it moves through everything, but that despite this, it is often invisible to us.
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This Short Day of Frost and Sun

Elise Moore·
Issue 58: Magical Realism
Like Jennie herself, Portrait of Jennie is made up of incongruities and rapid mood changes.
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What It Means To Be Young

Brian Brems·
Issue 58: Magical Realism
Walter Hill's Streets of Fire is a gutter fairy tale, propelled by the transcendent power of rock and roll.
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