The Illusionist (2010)
The Illusionist (2010)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Jean-Claude Donda
Tatischeff / French Cinema Manager (voice)
Eilidh Rankin
Alice (voice)
Didier Gustin
Songs (voice)
Jil Aigrot
Songs (voice)
Jacques Tati
Monsieur Hulot (archive footage) (uncredited) / Original Story / Screenstory / Original Film Writer
Raymond Mearns
Additional Voices
Bob Last
Producer
Fiona Hall
Production Manager
Tom Urie
Additional Voices
Gabriel Mase
Animation
Paul Bandey
Additional Voices
Laurent Lévy
Foley
Tarn Harper
Production Accountant
Sylvain Chomet
Director / Adaptation / Editor / Music / Screenplay
Philippe Carcassonne
Executive Producer
Laurent Kricher
Animation
Satjit Matharu
Animation
Sally Chomet
Producer
Javier Martin Lapeyra
Animation
Isobel Stenhouse
Background Designer
Edward Hall
Animation
Michael Solinger
Post Production Supervisor
Nic Debray
Animation
Christina Calles Ruiz
Animation
Allan Fernando
Animation
Bjarne Hansen
Art Direction
Leonard Ward
Animation
François Lepeuple
Foley
Michael Swofford
Animation
Manuel Galiana
Animation
Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang
Animation
Mario Serrano Hervas
Animation
Julian Villanua Escolan
Animation
Charlotte Walton
Animation
Richard Bazley
Animation
Nicolette Van Gendt
Animation
Victor Ens
Animation
Sydney Padua
Animation
Yann Tremblay
Animation
Ignacio Fernando De Zumar
Animation
Arturo Hernandez
Animation
Andy McPherson
Animation
Valentin Amador Diaz
Animation
Campbell McAllister
Digital Effects Supervisor
Jean Goudier
Sound Designer
Thierry Torres Rubio
Animation
Sandra Gaudi
Animation
Michael Coles
Animation
Alvaro Gaivoto
Animation
Mike Shorten
Propmaker
Antonio Mengual Llobet
Animation
Jaques Muller
Animation
Greg Manwaring
Animation
Paul Dutton
Assistant Director
Mael Gourmelen
Animation
Tom Caulfield
Animation
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 16, 2010
Original NameL'Illusionniste
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 20m
Budget$18,000,000
Box Office$6,007,194
Genres
Wiki.
The Illusionist (French: L'Illusionniste) is a 2010 animated film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. The film is based on an unproduced script written by French mime, director and actor Jacques Tati in 1956. Controversy surrounds Tati's motivation for the script, which was written as a personal letter to his estranged eldest daughter, Helga Marie-Jeanne Schiel, in collaboration with his long-term writing partner Henri Marquet, between writing for the films Mon Oncle and Play Time.The main character is an elderly version of Tati, with hints of his character Monsieur Hulot. The plot revolves around a struggling illusionist who visits an isolated community and meets a young lady who is convinced that he is a real magician. Chomet relocated the film, originally intended by Tati to be set in Czechoslovakia, to Scotland in the late 1950s. According to the director, "It's not a romance, it's more the relationship between a dad and a daughter." Sony's US press kit declares that the "script for The Illusionist was originally written by French comedy genius and cinema legend Jacques Tati as a love letter from a father to his daughter, but never produced". The film received acclaim from critics, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, losing to Pixar's Toy Story 3.
The Illusionist was the last film to be distributed by Pathé theatrically in the United Kingdom before being shut down in 2009 and focusing as a solo production company on British films starting in 2013 up until their shut down in November 2023.