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Simon Magus

1999, Movie, NR, 106 mins

Simon Magus: Review

Set in rural, 19th-century Europe in the small Jewish village of Silesia, this fable about intolerance is handsome without being especially thought-provoking. Simon (Noah Taylor) is Silesia's village idiot, an orphaned outcast pitied by some townspeople, feared and even despised by others. Tormented by children and forbidden to worship at the temple with the men, he lives in a rundown shack and survives by begging and doing odd jobs for Jews and Christians alike. And he has v... read more leave a comment