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Year: 2010
Rating: 7.8/10 ()
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: Germany: 90 min (Berlin International Film Festival) | USA: 80 min
Release Date: 16 June 2010 (Belgium) See more »
Writers: Sylvain Chomet (adaptation), Jacques Tati (original screenplay)
Movie Storyline
Details the story of a dying breed of stage entertainer whose thunder is being stolen by emerging rock stars. Forced to accept increasingly obscure assignments in fringe theaters, garden parties and bars, he meets a young fan who changes his life forever.
Cast:
Jean-Claude Donda
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The Illusionist / French Cinema Manager
(voice)
Eilidh Rankin
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Alice
(voice)
Duncan MacNeil
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Additional Voices
(voice)
Raymond Mearns
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Additional Voices
(voice)
James T. Muir
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Additional Voices
(voice)
Tom Urie
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Additional Voices
(voice)
Paul Bandey
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Additional Voices
(voice)
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Sound Mix: DTS
Color: Color
Filming Locations: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Soundtracks:
"Chanson Illusionist"
Written & Composed by Sylvain Chomet Published by Django Films Ltd Performed by Didier Gustin, Jil Aigrot and Frédéric Lebon
Official Site(s): Official site |
Trivia:
Setting of Tati's original script was Prague, but Sylvain Chomet moved it to Edinburgh, where he lives and has his animation studio.
Crazy Credits:
At the end of the final credits, there's a short bonus scene.
User Review:
, rated:
There are some awkward things that the market laws and peculiarities
make happen once in a while. This is a film that belongs in the pocket
of animation followers, not mainstream animation, in the tradition of
the great studios, but animation in the more meditative tradition of
the once called fine arts. Animation as a form worth by its own
materialization. In other words, the drawings are worth simply for
existing, we can appreciate such a film for the flavour of its own
world, as much as we can appreciate a sketch of Michelangelo regardless
of the whatever he is showing. The particular basic skills of each
creative leader goes nearly untouched to the screen where we watch the
film. That's what makes me look for author animation once in a while:
the visual worlds are visceral and direct, as if the film was being
drawn at the same time you watch them.
Chomet is a filmmaker whose personal world is worth visiting. His
meditative approach is fully aligned with the narratives he chooses.
Here that meditation found a perfect set in the rainy hills of
Edinburgh, a city i've never visited but which i imagine must be much
rougher than this one we have on film. the narrative begins with the
magician wandering through different places, different countries, until
he finds the one city that suits the mood the filmmaker wants to tell.
The self-reference is clear here: Chomet is the magician. The Tati
double is for the people that surround him as Chomet is to us the
audiences. You think the trick is about the rabbit and the hat? No, the
trick is about the tricker. You think the story is about Tati's script?
No, the story is about what Chomet does with it. The master
self-reflexive stroke here is, of course, the moment when our animated
magician gets in a theatre to find a projection of Tati's Mon Oncle
going on. The distance, metaphorical and visual, between animation and
the live-action film we get on screen accounts for the semiotic
importance of this bit. The fact that we get to see the animated and
the real Tati on the same frame accounts for the will Chomet had to
make us compare both.
Much has been said about this Tati connection, how it gives birth to
the animated character, and how it mimics Tati in his approach. I don't
make much of it, at least not in the terms that generally people have
been putting into it. Tati certainly en forms the character, and
inspires the moves, but the puppeteer is Chomet, not Tati. What we see
are his moves, not Tati's. And the pace, and visual narrative, all that
belongs to Chomet's world. But we are lead into believing we will watch
Tati coming our of the grave. That's the trick, that's the illusion.
My opinion: 4/5
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