The Tournées Festival/Film Today: 'L'illusionniste' ('The Illusionist')

CalArts, Bijou Theater

L'illusionniste
The Illusionist
Sylvain Chomet
2010 / 80 min.

FILM/VIDEO: Sylvain Chomet’s delightful follow-up to 2003’s The Triplets of Belleville is another exquisitely animated film, one based on an unproduced script by the French comic genius Jacques Tati. The Illusionist is set in the early 1960s, the time when Tati wrote the screenplay after his huge success with Mon Oncle (1958).

This event is part of The Tournées Festival, the weekly series of new French films on campus.

Support for the Tournées Festival is provided by:

• The French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs / The Centre National de la Cinématographie
• The Florence Gould Foundation / The Grand Marnier Foundation / highbrow entertainment.
• www.facecouncil.org