The Illusionist
- Release Date
- February 16, 2010
- Director
- Sylvain Chomet
- Cast
- Jean-Claude Donda
- Runtime
- 90
- Main Genre
- Animation
- Writers
- Sylvain Chomet , Jacques Tati
- Tagline
- From the director of The Triplets of Belleville.
Summary
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 An outdated, aging magician, forced to wander from country to country, city to city and station to station in search of a stage to perform his act meets a young girl at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.
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