A charming confrontation of the unknown, with a winning Simon Pegg performance. Our Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose review:
There have been many accounts of “talking” animals throughout history, most of them birds. But in the early 1930s, Hungarian researcher Nandor Fodor received a letter from an old colleague soliciting his opinion about a curious case from the Isle of Man and a talking mongoose named Gef.recounts Fodor’s investigation of this curious happening and the harrowing things he found on the island.
For their part, Pegg and Driver do an exceptional job bringing the oddball venturers to life. Pegg is properly clipped, cynical and curious, going from scrutinizing to shocked in seconds. He Christoph Waltzes his way through an Austro-Hungarian accent that adds to his character’s self-consciousness as an outsider. He’s the proper man for this time, sure of his convictions, even if his knowledge is tenuous. Like any good paranormal investigator, his logic is part conjecture and conjuration.
And it’s hard not to get flustered when talking to Gef. Writer/director Adam Sigal takes us to the edge of explanation, peering into the crate for confirmation that what our senses perceive is true. But certainty evades us, which Sigal manipulates to make the space sing, like a spiritualist performing a séance for their paying audience. By using audio tricks and sleight-of-camera techniques, he electrifies the frame with possibility. What seems like fantasy may actually be real.
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