Early reviews are praising “Simon Magus,” a British film set in a 19th century Polish shtetl. Billed as “a tale from a vanished world,” the film, according to the Associated Press, “captures the spirit of ancient Judaic mysticism, a world of visions, apparitions, omens and maledictions.”
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