MirrorMask
- Original title
- MirrorMask (Mirror Mask)
- Year
- 2005
- Running time
- 96 min.
- Country
United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Stephanie Leonidas
- Jason Barry
- Gina McKee
- Rob Brydon
- Dora Bryan
- Stephen Fry
- Andy Hamilton
- Victoria Williams
- Robert Llewellyn
- Simon Harvey
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Fantasy | Steampunk. Circus. Fairy Tales / Fables
- Movie Groups
- Neil Gaiman Adaptations
- Synopsis
- MirrorMask centers on Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, who often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother's major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it's up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister.
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- Awards
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2005: Sitges Fantasy Film Festival: Best Makeup
- Critics' reviews
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"This dazzling reverie of a kids-and-adults movie, an unusual collaboration between lord-of-the-cult multimedia artist Dave McKean and king-of-the-comics Neil Gaiman, has something to astonish everyone."
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"If 'The Wizard of Oz' were reborn in the 21st century, it might look a lot like MirrorMask. A product of the Jim Henson laboratory, the film is endlessly inventive with creativity to burn."
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"Though the story meanders, the film's look is nothing short of breathtaking."
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"Too strange and disjointed to attract much of an audience, but its astonishing visuals showcase a major new talent: first-time feature director and book illustrator Dave McKean."
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"Episodic, detached, and lacking in drive, but packed with amazing, hallucinatory dream-imagery that makes real dreams look flat by comparison."
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"Watching 'MirrorMask', I suspected the filmmakers began with a lot of ideas about how the movie should look, but without a clue about pacing, plotting or destination."
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