“Simon Magus” is a dark and dreamlike fable, “a tale” as its subtitle puts it, “from a vanished world.” Poetic and ambiguous, it manages to be magical in both the beautiful and ...

In “Simon Magus,” his atmospheric feature film debut ... the company that’s releasing it in the U.S. The film also screened last fall at the Jewish Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Each exists on the sharp edge between orthodoxy and doubt. The first concerns Simon Magus, or Simon the Sorcerer, a trickster and Gnostic chancer who appears briefly in the New Testament’s Book ...