Simon (Noah Taylor) is an outcast from his Jewish community, because he claims that the devil talks to him, and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid (Stuart Townsend) asks the "Squire" (Rutger Hauer) to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighboring Gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land, so he can "persuade" him otherwise.... (Full plot summary below)
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Simon (Noah Taylor) is an outcast from his Jewish community, because he claims that the devil talks to him, and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid (Stuart Townsend) asks the "Squire" (Rutger Hauer) to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighboring Gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land, so he can "persuade" him otherwise.
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| Greenwich Village GazetteEric LurioThink of it as: "Fiddler on the Roof" as soap opera. |
| Village VoiceLeslie CamhiThough Hopkins lovingly re-creates the surfaces of shtetl life, its deep spirituality seems to elude him. |
| East Bay ExpressKelly VancePresents a fairy-tale Eastern Europe glimpsed from far off through the telescope of melancholy nostalgia. |
| Empire MagazineAngie ErrigoA striking feature debut with a creditable stab at magical realism. |
| Boston GlobeLoren KingAn odd but original, at times even poetic, film about a vanished world. |
| E! OnlineE! StaffThe final montage sequence is exquisite, marking the emergence of an unusual and brilliant visual stylist. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe more I think about Simon Magus, the less I'm sure what it's trying to say. |
| Chicago TribuneRobert K. ElderAn engaging character study, steeped in religion, demonology and community politics. |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsGlenn WhippHopkins is determined to give his feature debut an overarching fablelike quality that his writing simply does not support. |
| User ReviewCary CA little known gem, beautifully filmed, acted and scored. An emotional rollercoaster that reduces me almost to stifled sobbing tears every time. Worth watching for the final two or three astonishing minutes alone. Tragic beauty full of symbolism, a work about prejudice of several kinds, primarily about poor Simon - he who adapts to rejection by creating bizarre little ways to get his own back and arouse supersitious fear. Beneath all that posturing is a good heart, but will his people be wise enough to see it? Highly recommended if you like the unusual. The film speed is pushed and flickers at times to great atmospheric effect too, so it is definitely an artistic creation to be admired. In amongst it all is Rutger Hauer's most profound role since Blade Runner and Ian Holms is at his most unnerving since going robot on Ripley in Alien! |
