The Illusionist

Name: The Illusionist
Genre: Animation, Drama
Released: 2010
Duration: 80 min
Cast: Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin, Duncan MacNeil, Raymond Mearns, James T. Muir

Sylvain Chomet20101h 20mAnimation, Drama

Why we chose it

Jacques Tati (“Playtime”) wrote this magical story in the 1950s but never filmed it, so it waited half a century for Sylvain Chomet (“The Triplets of Belleville”) to draw it, and an Oscar nomination followed. An illusionist and a girl who believes in magic barely need words between them.

Synopsis

It’s 1959, and an ageing illusionist can only find work where rock and roll hasn’t yet arrived. With nothing left for him in Paris, he heads to London and then on to a tiny Scottish island, where he meets Alice, a girl who has never seen a magician before. Soon she is keeping house for him.