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The Brothers Grimm
Interview, Sept, 2005 by Elbert Ventura
REVIEW: THE BROTHERS GRIMM (Dimension) Directed by Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm imagines the famed collectors of folklore as a pair of charlatans who travel the German countryside posing as rural ghostbusters. Will (Matt Damon) is the realist who exploits the rubes' fears of the supernatural; Jacob (Heath Ledger) is the innocent who believes in the enchanted stories the villagers tell. But while the brothers' fairy tales would seem the ideal vehicle for Gilliam, one of film's most extravagant fantasists, the result is turgid and uninvolving. By the end, Gilliam's appeal to our capacity for wonder seems a desperate plea from a director who's failed to cast a spell.
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