Terry Gilliam is by far my favorite director. I believe that "Brazil" and "Fisher King" are his highlights so far although "12 Monkeys" wasn't so bad. "Fisher King" is a modern fairy tale: the quest for the Holy Graal in the heart of New York. Two lost souls (Jeff Bridges at his best, plays the former big shot radio star Jack Lucas and Robin Williams with his own well-known style plays Parry, the mind disturbed former professor) are seeking for their "Grail", which in their case, is to forgive and to forget. Their own battle is against their past, the one as the person who provoke the tragedy and the other as the indirect victim of this tragedy. Neither Jeff Bridges, nor Robin Williams won the Oscar Award for this movie, but the - not so famous - Mercedes Ruehl: she won the best woman-supporting actress Award, playing Anna Napolitano a video store owner and Jack Luca's girlfriend in his decadence time. Of course I have to mention the incredible performance of Amanda Plummer as Lyndia Sinclair - a spaced out girl with whom Parry is secretly in love. Jack is trying to put those two together, thinking that for him will be something like atonement for the crime he caused.

Terry Gilliam has a very special eye on things. The whole movie is filmed in New York but mostly the cameras are moving upwards looking the height of the buildings. And Gilliam finds in New York everything he needs: castles like crypts for the "Grail", landscapes like "the day after the destruction", basements like mythical caves and green parks like the great open in which the nighttime you can lie down and watch the stars.

"Fisher King" it is a very touching but cruel movie at the same time. Paranoia is just right the next corner everywhere, normality and madness are relevant notions in New York's background, sensitivity and arrogance exists at the same time with it's cost everyone of course and finally, catharsis really deserves in the characters. Absolutely a "must see" movie.

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