MirrorMask
When was the last time you saw a movie during which you completely suspended your disbelief? Mirror Mask, the Sony Pictures release of a Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean project (ably assisted by the Jim Henson Company) that tells the story of Helena, a young woman who has grown up in the circus and wants to run away to real life. instead, her mother suddenly falls ill and Helena falls into a sleep that finds her on a dangerous journey through a dreamland. The movie is very effects-heavy–it couldn’t have been made without them–and yet they seemed so organic that I didn’t consider them effects until I was describing the film to a friend after the showing.
MirrorMask is a lush, vibrantly beautiful waking dream of a movie; it’s fitting that it’s playing at the Varsity on the Ave, a party girl turned dowager of a theater. The movie is in limited run and only plays six more days–if you see it for the first time later on DVD you’ll kick yourself for having missed the theather experience.
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Thanks for the head’s up - I was waiting to see where it’d appear. This is remarkably convenient… I’ll just catch a showing after going to work tomorrow, and it’ll simultaneously insure I go to work!
(Neil has said that if the movie does well in small release, it will go to a larger release…)
I hope the movie finds its way to Manila. The showed the trailer when Gaiman came here for a book signing and it was so beautiful. I have the illustrated script (autographed, of course).