Mirrormask Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 97 mins
- Year produced:
- 2005
- Director:
- Dave McKean
- Cast:
- Dora Bryan
- Stephanie Leonidas
- Gina McKee
A dazzling rites-of-passage fable that artfully deals with the transition to adulthood, Mirrormask features a mixture of live action and digital animation as a troubled young girl finds herself on an odyssey through a bizarre dreamscape populated by people and creatures both grotesque and beautiful. Celebrated comic-strip artist Dave McKean directs from a script co-written by acclaimed fantasy author Neil Gaiman.
- Average rating:
(1 votes)
Reviews
15 September 2008
kira from Friends of FILM CLUB
Mirrormask is a compelling film that can be interpreted in many ways. I really enjoyed this movie and the ideas behind it. I think the main idea is that in life there are many paths and at the end of each path is the person you could become. This movie is about a girl called Helena who is entering adulthood and choosing her path. She loves drawing and sketching and somehow enters into the land of her pictures. I like the idea that her made up world is just a strange and twisted version of her real world. My favourite character is her mother who has both a good and evil character representing her in Helena’s drawings world, this shows the positive and negative feelings she has towards her mother. This movie is unlike any other film I’ve seen because of its strange animations that are creepy and wonderful at the same time. While Helena is in her world she sees into the future and sees an older version of herself though she doesn’t like what she sees. But how can she escape her drawings world before she is trapped forever by her future self?
Fascinating facts
While making Mirrormask, the crew named the four computers responsible for the CGI effects John, Paul, George and Ringo after the four members of The Beatles. When the computer network crashed and four new machines had to be introduced, these were then named after the members of The Ramones – Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy.