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The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
Upon falling in love with an immortal woman, Dr Parnassus, makes a bargain with the devil to give him the beauty and active life of youth, in return to give him his son or daughter at the age of 16, but when his daughter is about to be 16, Parnassus thinks of a trick to save her life.
4 March 1969, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
21 July 1981, London, England, UK
29 December 1972, Lewisham, London, England, UK
31 May 1976, Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland
28 October 1978, Sussex, England, UK
4 April 1979, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
14 June 1981, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
7 December 1949, Pomona, California, USA
10 November 1966, Shostka, Sumskaya obalst, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Sumska oblast, Ukraine]
July 25, 2011
One of the greatest motion pictures ever. From its astounding themes to its brilliant cast, stunning design to enchanting score, undeniable smarts to lasting significance, this is Cinéma! Buy this movie. View this movie. Marry this movie. I have spoken.
April 04, 2011
I don't think it's such a big heresy to say that Terry Gilliam is both a genius and an annoyingly full-of-it director who's coasting on the goodwill he earned with Brazil.
January 08, 2010
When it's all done we're left with another recent Gilliam trademark: the highly imaginative mess.
January 31, 2011
a confusing mess. ... a promising set-up assembled with bits and pieces of Gilliam's brilliance, but he clearly did not wake up in the middle of the night with a brilliant vision
August 02, 2012
The film is flawed, but you don't expect narrative drive or coherence; you go for the director's flights of fantasy. Possessed of an imagination that throws off more sparks than a fizzing, spinning Catherine Wheel, Gilliam is a fabulous fabulist.
March 11, 2011
It's like snorting a line of pure Gilliam.
January 15, 2010
Terry Gilliam, the veteran film director who cut his teeth as the animation wizard of television's legendary Monty Python's Flying Circus, has flirted with genius throughout his career, and bedded her from time to time. In The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnas
April 07, 2011
A return to form for director Terry Gilliam?
January 08, 2010
Shot through with a bold, extravagant generosity of spirit, this journey behind the literal and figurative looking glass marks a gratifying return to form for Gilliam, whose recent films haven't quite lived up to his capacities.
January 08, 2010
Parnassus is fun to watch a good deal of the time, and Gilliam is almost always visually surprising, but Ledger could have used a more momentous send-off.
May 06, 2011
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is one of those movies that, despite spectacular elements, doesn't add up to a spectacular film.
January 08, 2010
It teases with magnificently tantalizing moments that don't quite add up to one grand insight. Which, come to think of it, is an epiphany of its own peculiar sort.