https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/simon-the-magician/Film?oid=1065256

Bewitching but never cute, this 1998 feature by Hungarian fabulist Ildiko Enyedi (My Twentieth Century) updates the story of Simon Magus, the gnostic trickster who taunted the Apostles and pleased the masses of Rome, into a modern-day study of premillennial hysteria. Peter Andorai plays Simon, a celebrity magician and seer in Budapest; called to Paris to solve a murder, he courts a young student who polls metro passengers about God (Julie Delarme), humors an African cop who seeks a metaphysical mentor (Hubert Kounde), and accepts the dare of a rival (Peter Halasz) that he be buried alive for three days—a Houdini-style “experiment” that suggests a blasphemous resurrection stunt. Tibor Mathe's camera glides through the early sequences and turns manic once the Parisian press descend on Simon, and the lovely score uses three Bartok pieces and a phrase from Beethoven's Seventh to accent his ambiguous agenda. In French and Hungarian with subtitles. 96 min.

谷歌翻譯：

匈牙利寓言家伊爾迪科·恩耶迪 (Ildiko Enyedi)（《我的二十世紀(jì)》）在 1998 年創(chuàng)作的這部影片迷人但絕不可愛，將嘲弄使徒并取悅羅馬民眾的諾斯底騙子西蒙·馬格斯 (Simon Magus) 的故事更新為對千禧年前歇斯底里癥的現(xiàn)代研究。 Peter Andorai 在布達(dá)佩斯飾演著名魔術(shù)師兼先知西蒙； 被召喚到巴黎解決一起謀殺案，他向一名調(diào)查地鐵乘客關(guān)于上帝的年輕學(xué)生（Julie Delarme）求愛，幽默一個(gè)尋求形而上學(xué)導(dǎo)師（休伯特·昆德）的非洲警察，并接受了對手（彼得·哈拉斯）的膽量 他被活埋三天——這是胡迪尼式的“實(shí)驗(yàn)”，暗示了一種褻瀆神靈的復(fù)活噱頭。 蒂博爾·馬特的鏡頭滑過早期的片段，一旦巴黎媒體來到西蒙身上，他就變得狂躁起來，可愛的樂譜使用了巴托克的三首曲子和貝多芬第七樂章中的一句話來強(qiáng)調(diào)他模棱兩可的議程。 法語和匈牙利語，帶字幕。 96 分鐘