Magical Girl (film)
Magical Girl is a 2014 Spanish neo-noir film directed by Carlos Vermut. The film was screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2014 San Sebastián International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Shell. It won the Goya Award for Best Actress for Bárbara Lennie at the 29th Goya Awards ceremony. Premise. Luis, an unemployed literature teacher, tries to fulfill the last wish of his 12-year-old daughter Alicia, who's terminally ill of cancer: owning the official costume of anime series "Magical Girl Yukiko". The elevated price of the costume makes  Luis get into an unusual and obscure chain of blackmails that involves Damián and Bárbara, to changing their lives forever. Influences on the film. Carlos Vermut had stated that the film bears the influence influenced of the popular dark magical girl anime "Puella Magi Madoka Magica". Carlos stated he liked the story in Madoka and that "[he] received inspiration from the dark part of [...] "Madoka Magica", not just imitating, but matching it with the image I was thinking and putting it in "Magical Girl"."