Each shooter shoots at himself. The name of the Hungarian director Ildiko Enyedi became known to a wide circle of film fans recently, after her film. About Body and Soul won the Golden Bear at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival. A characteristic feature of Enyedi’s directorial handwriting is the inclusion of mystical elements in the fabric of cinematic narrative, which is especially noticeable in The Magic Arrow, based on the plot of the opera of the same name by K. M. von Weber. In the role of a chess player starred our actor Alexander Kaidanovsky, one of the producers of the film was the famous rocker David Bowie.
Adequately retell the plot of this tape is not so simple, especially since the narrative alternately develops in two time layers - the present and the deep antiquity. This extraordinary surreal movie will appeal to fans of strange arthouse cinema. After watching the film, you will learn why the brown rabbit befriended the Virgin Mary, how the soul is sold to the devil for magical bullets, what impact a snail can have on people’s lives. After viewing, the viewer will decide for himself what he saw: the world of adults through the eyes of a child prone to fantasize, a postmodern parable about the role of chance in life, or an esoteric statement encrypted with numerous symbols.