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When life loses its wonder, all it takes is one person who still believes in magic.
2010 · 1h 20m · PG
Animation, Drama
Directed by
Sylvain Chomet
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A French illusionist travels to Scotland to work. He meets a young woman in a small village. Their ensuing adventure in Edinburgh changes both their lives forever.
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The film ends on a note of graceful, heartbreaking beauty that Tati would have admired for its lack of sentimentality. A lot of what precedes that ending, though, is precious and slight and a little too fanciful.
This is a remarkable movie: lovely, slow-paced and almost silent, rich with pathos and deft comic gestures.
The Illusionistis magical in more ways than one.
The story has enough sentimental schmaltz to grease a locomotive.
A lovely appreciation of Tati and a loving, bittersweet look at the end of the 1950s, before entertainers like the magician of the title were displaced by rock bands and other more visceral acts.
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