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"Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"
Terry Gilliiam strikes again
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
This article was published January 7, 2010 at 11:02 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK — The most recent film circus to pop out of Terry Gilliam’s head is “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” a full three-ring affair opening Friday in Arkansas, complete with puffs of smoke, glitter and grunge, some hocus-pocus, mumbo jumbo and even a dwarf.
According to the review in Friday’s MovieStyle section, it’s the story of a holy man, or maybe a fool, who transports customers into fantastical worlds of their own imagining. In Critique of Pure Reason, Kant used the phrase “ens imaginarium” to describe pure space and pure time, preconditions of imagination. Think of this movie as a gloss on the nature of imagination, only with hurdy-gurdy music and, alas, Heath Ledger’s final screen performance.
Ledger was in the middle of production when he died a year ago from an accidental overdose of prescription medicines. Gilliam, in either a desperate or an inventive move, decided to complete the movie with three different marquee names — Johnny Depp, Jude Law and a very good Colin Farrell — all of whom play aspects of Ledger’s character. It’s a weird, not entirely successful experiment.
Read tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
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