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Name: The Illusionist (2010)
Released: 2010-6-16
Cast: Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin

The Illusionist (2010)

PG
1h 20m
2010

90%

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THE ILLUSIONIST is a story about two paths that cross. An outdated, aging magician, forced to wander from country to country, city to city and station to station in search of a stage to perform his act, meets a young girl at the start of her life's journey. Alice is a teenage girl with all her capacity for childish wonder still intact. She plays at being a woman without realizing the day to stop pretending is fast approaching. She doesn't know yet that she loves The Illusionist like she would a father; he already knows that he loves her as he would a daughter. Their destinies will collide, but nothing – not even magic or the power of illusion – can stop the voyage of discovery.

Director:

Sylvain Chomet

Producer:

Bob Last, Sally Chomet

Writer:

Sylvain Chomet

Cast:

Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

90%

Critics Consensus: An engrossing love letter to fans of adult animation, The Illusionist offers a fine antidote to garish mainstream fare.

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Sean Axmaker

... a delicate and delightful piece of old-fashioned hand-drawn animation where character is in body language and personality in the "performance."

Does ample justice to the many layers of Jacques Tati’s tale, both in text and out.

There are some laughs in "The Illusionist," but a lot of it is melancholic and somewhat self-pitying.

It's not just the themes that resemble a Tati picture. Chomet and company go even further to make this feel like a movie that could slide right into Jacques Tati's catalog.