A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
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Simon Day
- Uncle Bobas Uncle Bob
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In London, the sideshow troupe of Doctor Parnassus promises the audience a journey to the "Imaginarium", an imaginary world commanded by the mind of Doctor Parnassus, where dreams come true. In the stories that Doctor Parnassus tells to his daughter Valentina, the midget Percy, and his assistant Anton, he claims to have lived for more than one thousand years; However, when he fell in love with a mortal woman, he made a deal with the devil (Mr. Nick), trading his immortality for youth. As part of the bargain, he promised his son or daughter to Mr. Nick on their sixteenth birthday. Valentina is now almost to the doomed age and Doctor Parnassus makes a new bet with Mr. Nick, whoever seduces five souls in the Imaginarium will have Valentina as a prize. Meanwhile the troupe rescues Tony, a young man that was hanged on a bridge by the Russians. Tony was chased until he finds and joins the group. Tony and Valentina fall in love with each other and the jealous Anton discovers that his competition may be a liar. —RubyRed, Seattle, Washington USA
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Heads Up! Heads Up!
What a blast! What a cast! Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Johnny Depp, Andrew Garfield, Jude Law, Verne Troyer, Colin Farrell and Tom Waits. I don't quite know how to describe this other than to say it's masterfully-produced-21st-century-Monty Python-surreal-bizarre-trippy-digitized-cinema with an absolutely colorfully-entertaining and imaginative storyline. How in the name of Ni did I miss this up until now!? Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" is sophisticated, thoughtful, entertaining, totally brilliant and light years distant from the original simplistic Circus humor.
If you are becoming board with superheros, apocalypse survival, Star Wars, Star Treks,and 2.0 versions of movies made 40 years ago then clear the fuzz out of your head and buy a ticket for the Parnassus Road Show. You won't be disappointed!
If you are becoming board with superheros, apocalypse survival, Star Wars, Star Treks,and 2.0 versions of movies made 40 years ago then clear the fuzz out of your head and buy a ticket for the Parnassus Road Show. You won't be disappointed!
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