Magical Girl

Film - 2014

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Magical Girl it's a movie with Bárbara Lennie, José Sacristán, Luis Bermejo, Lucía Pollán, Javier Botet Full cast. Directed by Carlos Vermut. Original title Magical Girl Genre Drama.

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MAGICAL GIRL by Carlos Vermut of

Filippo Margionti

Magical Girl is the story of a father, Luis, and his daughter Alicia, a very sweet and sick little girl who only made a wish with catastrophic consequences. It is also the story of Barbara, a "disturbed" woman, and of an elderly mathematics professor who is about to be released from prison. Is their existence about to intertwine...? In this second feature film by Vermut we can already see a sense of impressive size and a personal and recognizable style, here as in the following "Who will sing for you?", another very successful work available on Netflix. It must be said that in both films everything is so wonderfully ambiguous that it is difficult for the spectator to completely focus on what he is seeing, without however being able to interrupt the vision. Curiously, the director seems to think, develop his works taking inspiration from geometric games: if in "Who will sing for you?" origami is very important, Magical Girl is more similar to the puzzle we see in the film, but a puzzle of miserable existences that falls apart as it is completed, with all its merciless connections of fate. Or maybe the case...? I don't know what's worse. And to think that it had started many years earlier, when a thirteen-year-old 'upset' her mathematics teacher... Closing the circle? We know how it ends, and whether it's chance or fate, it's equally scary. Read all

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The father of a terminally ill girl is determined to grant his daughter's last wish, a ridiculously expensive collectors' costume from a Japanese TV series. The request will drive him into a journey within his city's dark underbelly.