I am planning today as a day of classics. As a beginning, I watched The Magician by Ingmar Bergman in the morning. (Ashes and Diamonds by Andrej Wajda is also there in the afternoon.) The Magician is an intriguing film that portrays the battle of wits between a quirky magician and an official doctor with scientific thinking. The latter is backed by the authorities, who are hell-bent on exposing the true face of the magician. But in the end the magician wins by performing an ultimate real-life magic trick. The black and white film provides glimpses of various shades of human psyche. Have to watch it again to experience the full impact.
Among other websites that follow the IFFK “action”, Thushar on PFC has posted another set of fine reviews. Some of the films we both watched have same name. But it appears that the movies we have watched were different!
Next I am going to watch Half Moon, directed by Barhman Ghorbadi, in Remya Theatre. I heard this film is about post-Saddam Iraq and the life there.
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