2006 · comedy · drama
The Magician
Directed by Cem Yılmaz, Ali Taner Baltacı2h 2m2006
Failed magician Iskender decides to do a tour to save his career, but has to bring his grumpy and senile father along. The tour is quite unexpectedly interrupted when a bride actually disappears from the stage.
Our read: The Magician (2006) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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