THE MAGUS PLAYS A VICIOUS GAME
THE GAME IS LOVE. THE GAME IS LUST
THE GAME IS LIFE ITSELF. OR IS IT
DEATH?
THE MAGUS
Dir.
by Guy Green, 1968
117
mins, England
In
English
Nicholas
Urfe (pronunced EARTH), a man on the run from love, takes a
teaching job in a remote greek village. His investigation of the
mysterious suicide of his predesscor leads him to a place called the
“waiting room” - a strange estate ruled over by Maurice
Conchis (pronunced CONSCIOUS) – a man whose existance is
shrouded in mystery. He may be a ghost, a psychic, a nazis
sympathesier, a traitor, a mass murderer, a psychiatrist, a film
director, an actor in the THEATER OF LIFE or a magician. OR he may
be none of these things. The longer Urfe stays at the estate, the
more and more his daily existance falls under the control of Conchis
and the flimsier his own sense of reality becomes.
Some would call this movie “slow”
but DON'T fall asleep before the rite of Pan & Diana and
certainly not before the ritual magic drug sequence!!
If this movie was a tarot card it would
be XV THE DEVIL
