Gust Van den Berghe proves adept at detailed world creation with his irresistibly visually attractive The Magnet Man, which takes us into the world of the circus.
Lucien is leading a rural life in literal shades of grey with his mother and father. A protagonist in the Buster Keaton mode, there's not much to smile about in his loneliness. His one skill, although using that word for it is certainly debatable, is that he is able to attract metal objects in the manner of a magnet - an ability that is brought home in gloriously comic fashion after an altar boy's swinging censer becomes stuck to his leg at his mother's funeral.
Things change when opportunity - in an unusual form - comes knocking at his door. Heading to the station to meet his father with a violin stuffed with money, the...
Lucien is leading a rural life in literal shades of grey with his mother and father. A protagonist in the Buster Keaton mode, there's not much to smile about in his loneliness. His one skill, although using that word for it is certainly debatable, is that he is able to attract metal objects in the manner of a magnet - an ability that is brought home in gloriously comic fashion after an altar boy's swinging censer becomes stuck to his leg at his mother's funeral.
Things change when opportunity - in an unusual form - comes knocking at his door. Heading to the station to meet his father with a violin stuffed with money, the...
- 11/18/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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