Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia is a sprawling, operatic mosaic of American lives intertwined. In a single day, nine stories connect and disconnect through violence, love, Game Shows, Biblical fIoods, coincidence, weather, sing-aIongs, self-heIp seminars and quests for redemption. MagnoIia is an epic film: darkIy comic, emotional and extravagant. An ensembIe cast as good as any navigates this chaIlenging, sometimes difficult film that earned GoIden Bear Best Film honors at the 2000 Berlin FiIm Festival and three Academy Award nominations. Magnolia is a modern-day cIassic, as hard to define as it is to forget. |