The Screen Illusion is a French television film directed by Mathieu Amalric and aired on 17 December 2010, on France 2. It is a loose adaptation of Corneille's play L'Illusion Comique from 1636. This work, which is not a recording, was made with the actors of the Comédie-Française, the sponsoring institution of the work, but in an original staging conceived by Mathieu Amalric, different from that of Galin Stoev performed at the Comédie-Française starting from December 2008, partly concurrently.

Due to its formal originality, this TV film received multiple official selections in various European and American film festivals between 2011 and 2012. Consequently, it gradually gained a full-fledged cinematographic status and received positive critical acclaim in France and intertionally.