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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Magical Girl
  name:
    name part: First-Run Features (Firm)
    role:
      role term: distributor.
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm)
    role:
      role term: distributor.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: European/Baltic Studies.
  genre: Feature films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
  abstract: One of the breakout hits of Spain's burgeoning low-budget filmmaking scene, Carlos Vermut's debut, Diamond Flash, instantly established the young filmmaker as a deft practitioner of the thriller genre. Vermut's follow-up, Magical Girl, employs a classic noir premise, taking his exploration of the darkest side of human nature to exhilarating new extremes. Luis (Luis Bermejo) is desperate to fulfill his terminally ill daughter's last wish: to own the prohibitively expensive "Magical Girl Yukiko" dress from her favorite Japanese cartoon. Unemployed, with no prospects, and blinded with grief, Luis turns to extortion when he crosses paths with the beautiful, mentally disturbed Barbara (Barbara Lennie). Her marriage threatened by the blackmail, Barbara reluctantly complies with his scheme, even as it sends her spiralling into a world of danger and degradation. Seeking revenge on Luis, she turns for help to the only person who truly knows how damaged she is: retired math teacher Damian (Jose Sacristan), who has dark secrets of his own. The trio descends into an infernal cycle of deception and double-crosses, in which the struggle between reason and instinct plays out to nerve-jangling effect.. While Magical Girl displays ample influence from the best of Spanish cinema past and present , from Luis Bunuel to Alejandro Amenabar, it also draws inspiration from the hyper-stylization of Japanese manga and the boundary pushing of South Korean genre cinema. Ultimately, however, Vermut's film is a thoroughly original creation, its vicious dance of vengeance and deceit offering a twisted reflection of Spain's fraught contemporary reality.. "A razor-sharp tale of unintended consequences." - Indiewire.
  note: In Process Record.
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Film
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Originally produced by First Run Features in 2014.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: In English
  subject:
    topic: Foreign language films
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: European/Baltic Studies
  identifier: 1202944 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VDU
    record creation date: 160825
    record change date: 20210125085402.0
    record identifier: in00003753887
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng