The streak of Terry Gilliam’s notoriously rotten luck is momentarily ending – his latest pseudo-fantasy Tideland has gone virtually unloved since least year’s Toronto Film Fest (though I would argue that any Gilliam movie is fascinating on some level), but is now finally making it to screens.
The story follows a young girl (future hottie Jodelle Ferland) who escapes her unbearable reality by wandering through a surreal landscape with four disembodied doll heads, with the always reliable Jeff Bridges playing the tween’s drugged-out, washed-up rock star father.
The trailer certainly makes it look like a Gilliam movie in all its Dutch-angled phantasmagorical glory, and the material seems to veer as far away as possible from the more mainstream (for Gilliam) Brothers Grimm. The movie hits