The villain sneers, and someone in the film- score department is banging a timpani in slow motion, meaning there's probably tragedy around the corner, but things are too earnest and sleepy to be sure.
Simon Magus
Misfit. Outcast. Turncoat. Prophet. Hero.
1999 · 1h 41m · N/A
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Directed by
Ben Hopkins
Overview
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
An odd but original, at times even poetic, film about a vanished world.
Beautifully shot and lyrically told, Simon Magus is a beguiling study in contrasts, good and evil, darkness and light, hope and despair, joy and melancholy.
The more I think about Simon Magus, the less I'm sure what it's trying to say.
Hopkins shows masterful skill in shaping Simon's reality and unreality in this engrossing, suspenseful morality play.
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