MirrorMask
| Movie | |
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| German title | MirrorMask |
| Original title | MirrorMask |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dave McKean |
| script | Dave McKean, Neil Gaiman |
| production | Martin G. Baker, Lisa Henson, Simon Moorhead, Michael Polis |
| music | Iain Ballamy |
| camera | Tony Shearn |
| cut | Nicolas Gaster |
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MirrorMask is a British fantasy film directed by Dave McKean from the year 2005 with Stephanie Leonidas in the lead role. The film is based on a story by Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman . In Germany, the film was distributed on DVD on June 20, 2006 .
action
Helena lives with her parents in the family's own circus . She often argues with her mother, who doesn't want to understand that Helena doesn't like life in the circus. For this reason, she takes refuge in her own, self-drawn world. After the next performance , which is preceded by an argument in which Helena wishes her mother to die , she collapses and has to be taken to the hospital . While the mother is in the hospital, Helena and her father live with his sister Nan. Helena, who now regretted what she said, visited her mother every day and learns that this surgery has to be.
That night she is woken up by music and follows its sound onto the balcony . This is where the normal environment begins to transform into a fantasy environment . On the balcony she meets three artists who are rehearsing there. However, shadows appear during rehearsal, engulfing two of the artists. The third, who introduces himself as Valentine, can save himself and Helena before they too fall victim to the shadows. Helena learns from Valentine that the world in which she ended up consists of the realm of light and the realm of shadow. However, the realm of light is slowly being swallowed up by shadows, which is why most of its inhabitants flee.
By mistake, she is mistaken for the Princess of the Shadow Realm and taken to the Prime Minister . However, he realizes that Helena is not the princess and explains to her that the realm of light was only threatened by the shadows because the queen's spell was stolen. Since then the queen has been in a kind of permanent sleep and can no longer protect her kingdom . Helena offers to look for the magic, even if nobody knows what it looks like. While they are looking, Helena discovers that she can see her room through the city windows. She also discovers that the princess has taken on her role in the “real” world, but is acting like the exact opposite of Helena. At this point she also realizes that the world she is in is none other than the one she has drawn. Her doppelganger , the princess, also realizes this and begins to destroy the drawings , and thus her world, which she hates.
The search in which they find out that the magic "MirrorMask" ( mirror mask ) is, ending in a small room with hundreds of drawers , all of which are closed. Of necessity, Valentine, who is still with her, and Helena have to try out all the drawers to find the one that fits her key . Suddenly the room is shaken as the princess destroys another drawing and Valentine disappears. When Helena wants to check on him, she is captured by the captors of the Queen of the Shadow Realm and kidnapped into the palace , because Valentine has betrayed her in order to get the reward that was placed on her. The queen takes her for her daughter, the princess, and casts a spell on her to make her compliant. In the meantime, Valentine changes his mind, returns to the palace and frees Helena from the magic that lies on her.
In the princess' room, Helena finally finds the "MirrorMask" and flees the palace with Valentine. Meanwhile, however, the princess, she thinks, has destroyed all the windows and is going out on the balcony to burn the last of the drawings. At the moment when the princess notices that there is still one last window on the balcony door, Helena puts on the mirror mask and thus comes back into her world. At the same time the princess gets back into her world. Back in reality, Helena learns that her mother's operation was successful and that she can soon be released. Some time later you can see her at the circus ticket office , where she meets a young man who wants to work at the circus and who looks astonishingly similar to Valentine.
production
- The scenes at Aunt Nan’s apartment were filmed at the Embassy Court in Brighton . The building was in bad shape at the time of filming, but was renovated after the filming was completed.
- The shooting lasted six weeks.
- The budget was four million dollars
- Dave McKean said of the animators: “All but two were straight from art school and almost all from Bournemouth. We took half the class. They all knew each other already. "(German: All but two came straight from school and most of them from Bournemouth. We took half the class. They all already knew each other. )
criticism
- cinema : "[...] Once you've gotten through the dull beginning in the 'normal world', the fairy tale fascinates with ironic nightmare images in which collage-like animation and real film mix."
- filmstart: “The latest production by the Jim Henson heirs didn't make it to the cinema. It's a shame, because the imaginative "Alice in Wonderland" variant does not reach the class of The Dark Crystal and The Journey into the Labyrinth, but its unusual appearance and absurd humor are still fascinating. "
Web links
- MirrorMask in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official homepage for the DVD
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Dave McKean
- ↑ cinema.de
- ↑ filmstart.biz ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
