Magnolia
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Magnolia: Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and nominated for three Academy Awards, Magnolia is a cinematic Rubik’s Cube of heightened realism and complexity, that ambitiously interweaves stories set in the San Fernando Valley – brought to life with an exceptional cast. Earl Partridge (Jason Robards) and Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall) each carries with them a gnawing regret like the very cancer they are both fighting, while the majority of the rest of the cast deals with the scars inflicted upon them in their youth, as they head towards their own emotional unravelling. Anderson takes a cue from Newton’s Third Law of Motion, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction,” and begins to fashion his own law in Magnolia – “There are no coincidences” – as the late-great magician Ricky Jay so convincingly narrates, via the almost supernatural circumstances of seven…
