entertainment.timesonline.co.uk - 5/23/2009
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Final Heath Ledger film premieres I Full Cannes Film Festival coverage Terry Gilliam's magical sprawling tale about the transforming powers of the imagination is touchingly dedicated to the memory of Heath Ledger. The young Australian actor tragically died last year before filming was ...
hollywoodreporter.com - 5/22/2009
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More Cannes reviews CANNES -- The first big
question about Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"
involves how the filmmaker managed to complete the film when his star Heath Ledger died in the middle of shooting. The answer is with ...
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Film Review: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
guardian.co.uk - 5/22/2009
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, featuring Heath Ledger's
poignant final bow, is just too madly self-indulgent Heath
Ledger takes a poignant final bow in Terry Gilliam's loopy, sweet-natured but madly self-indulgent fantasia The Imaginarium of ...
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Terry Gilliam's Imaginarium may be for fans only
screendaily.com - 5/22/2009
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Terry Gilliam has always seemed like the last
apostle of unfettered fantasy in an age insistent on
prosaic reality. The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus is a typically staunch defence of the transformative power of the imagination and its ability to change ...
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What the UK papers say about the second week at Cannes
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... "None of the famous actors, including Ledger, is in the film long enough to enlighten us about Tony's character, or care about his fate," writes James Christopher in the Times. "Ultimately, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a film with a huge heart and a dazzling eye, but it does little for the very thing it is trying to celebrate: the imagination." ...
Cannes 2009: Gilliam's 'Imaginarium' Too Whimsical, Capricious & Incoherent?
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... The London Times also have mixed feelings about it, but definitely see value in the film. They call Ledger a "marvel to watch," but suggest Gilliam is victim to his own idiosyncracies. "The film is a romantic homage to the art of make believe, and it grants Gilliam a license to run riot with his mind-bending illusions. But the story that holds these visions together is slim, incomprehensible, and desperately unconvincing... the film could have benefited with a lot more hard story and a lot less whimsy. But it is a visually stunning watch." ...
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