Cork French Film Festival 2012
The Illusionist
An old-fashioned music-hall conjurer struggling to find work in 1950’s Paris is forced to accept questionable engagements in dubious basement venues, at garden parties or in bars and cafés.
14:00 Sat 12 March, 2011 @ The Gate Cinema
2010
83mins
DCP
English
Directed by Sylvain Chomet
Starring Eilidh Rankin, Jean-Claude Donda, Paul Bandey
In one of these obscure establishments – a village pub on Scotland’s west coast – he meets an innocent young girl named Alice. The encounter changes his life completely.
Sylvain Chomet’s long-awaited follow-up to Belleville Rendez Vous is a beautifully observed animated treasure based on a script by Jacques Tati.