Magdalen
"A gossipy meditation on art, drinking, smoking and screwing."
Magdalen is a tavern Scheherazade, a prostitute who sells stories in a seedy Philadelphia dive bar. Her clients include Mr. Jones, an angry black businessman who wants to hear the same graphic, sexual fantasy every night; Jace, a droll, Mishima-loving slacker/writer looking for an ending to his novel; Phil, a precocious skater-boy who wants to understand his dead father; and Edward, a shy 53-year-old virgin looking for love. Alix D. Smith is Magdalen McElhinney, a tough, brainy femme noir, whose name suggests that the film's director is the father she talks about obsessively. Littered with literary and cinematic allusions, the film's narrators make Magdalen part Warholian confessional and part Brechtian taproom comedy.
Directed by Andrew Repasky McElhinney · Written by Andrew Repasky McElhinney
Cast
- Alix D. Smith Magdalen McElhinney
- David Semonin Edward Semonin
- David Semonin Edward Semonin
- Moira Rankin The Old Lady
- Jace Gaffney Jace
- John Terry Jones Mr. Jones
- Phil Hooven Phil
- Nathan Hopson Nathan
- Suzanne B. Repasky The Heroine Of Jace's Novel
- Andrew Repasky McElhinney Andrew
Make it a double feature
3h 32m together
Magdalen
High and Low
A close match in mood and era.
