I finally saw Mirrormask last night, after possibly the most expensive DVD rental period ever. Dark, unpredictable and visually gorgeous, it’s full of wonderful ideas: the library where books must be caught with nets, a woman held prisoner by her cats, intricate and stylised backgrounds that are still pencil drawings, the continual imagery(s)¹ of the mask…Dave McKean is credited as Director and Designer, from Neil Gaiman’s script, and there’s not an uninteresting frame in the film. Its one of the few movie posters I wouldn’t get bored of five minutes after putting it up. I’d call it a modern fairy tale, but what isn’t? A great couple of hours if you fancy something otherworldly and beautiful.

1. possibly a made up word. I mean both visual and metaphorical imagery [↩]