Rough Magic . Tucson Weekly . 06-19-97

Rough Magic

DIRECTED BY: Clare Peploe

REVIEWED: 06-19-97

Close your eyes, wish real hard, and maybe this movie will go away. Bridgette Fonda stars as a peppy, talented magician being chased by an evil, well-groomed politician because she's photographed a murder that didn't really happen, or something. She goes to Mexico, seeks out a Shaman, falls in love--it's the 1940s! This movie is so strange and inconsistent that it is mesmerizing...mesmerizingly awful. It seems the filmmakers are aiming for a dose of magical realism, dried-out, reconstituted and completely misunderstood. Conjure, if you will, Gabriel Garcia Márquez with his brain partially removed writing a quip-filled mystery set in the '40s, and you might come close to the recipe for Rough Magic.

--Stacey Richter

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