Illusionist, the

A FILM BY Sylvain Chomet

An elegant and emotional elegy for a bygone era."" ""

- Eric. D Snider, Film.com

Bittersweet, moving and utterly beautiful? a love letter to cinema and to Scotland.""""

- Helen O'Hara, Empire Magazine

Gentle, affectionate, whimsical, but deeply felt and with an arrowhead of emotional pain.""""

- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Synopsis

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 An outdated, aging magician, forced to wander from country to country, city to city and station to station in search of a stage to perform his act meets a young girl at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.