Magic Farm

“Magic Farm” is eye-catching with its high saturation and punchy editing choices, but the seduction of bright and bold visuals is incompatible with Ulman’s unwieldy script.

An Americans-abroad satire that teeters between pop treat and indie trifle.

A fun indie diversion that offers plenty of reason to believe its director has bigger things in her future.

The cast, led by Chloe Sevigny and Alex Wolff, ably skewer the American media’s ignorance of the wider world, but Ulman’s compassionate film holds out hope that different peoples can still make connections.

Rampant themes of narcissism, ineptitude, and egotism are worth a chuckle, but “Magic Farm” ultimately succumbs to the same superficiality its screenplay takes to task.

A formally radical, biting satire about odious, privileged Americans adrift in a remote Argentine rural town.

The result is disappointingly thin&#59; as much as the film cribs its aesthetics from the likes of Sebastián Silva and Eugene Kotlyarenko (one of its producers), it proves enervating for anybody not in the thick of its quirky inaction.

It’s a metatextual – and occasionally annoying – work that requires either total submission or outright rejection.


Despite some visual flourishes and moments of droll amusement, this quirky satire doesn’t produce much magic — or narrative coherence.

Ulman's screenplay for Magic Farm raises a lot of ideas and subsequently drops the more promising ones...