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"Magical Universe" is a tender portrait of the artist as a weirdly gifted, wildly prolific and strange man.
While Mr. Workman evidently respects Mr. Carbee's talent, he also frames his movie as a trite narrative about a kind of lovably odd acquaintance who comes out of his shell, without many incisive ideas about shaping or broadening the material.
A whiff of the strange never quite lifts from the real-life story of Al Carbee, a Maine outsider artist who converted his ramshackle home into a cavernous diorama for Barbie dolls.
This story is about tenderness and empathy, including Carbee's for his plastic proxies.
Carbee is such a benign, downright lovable presence, and so obviously tickled by the attention, that the film doesn't seem at all exploitative.
An odor of condescension and, eventually, exploitation inescapably emanates.
To varying degrees of success, it attempts to prominently display Al Carbee's creations, yet keeps undermining his art in favor of investigating his skewed relationship to everyday realities.
Obsessive artist, obsessed filmmaker. Worth all the obsession? Somewhat.
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