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Unholy Production With a Fairy-Tale Ending

PHILIP PULLMAN’S novel “The Golden Compass,” the basis for the new movie of the same name, is set in a parallel universe that runs on something called anbaric power instead of electricity, and where people travel in hot-air balloons and enormous, slow-moving zeppelins. Landing the movie in theaters, where it will open Friday, was not unlike inflating and then piloting one of these exotic, cumbersome airships.
The project nearly crashed at least once, while burning through $180 million, and it is unclear what audiences will make of such a craft, which is at once high-tech and deliberately old-fashioned. [...]

di Charles McGrath, articolo completo (9214 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 2007