{"id":12870,"date":"2010-08-17T11:14:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T17:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=12870"},"modified":"2010-08-17T14:41:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T20:41:22","slug":"tuesday-tease-sylvain-chomets-the-illusionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/tuesday-tease-sylvain-chomets-the-illusionist\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tease:  Sylvain Chomet&#8217;s THE ILLUSIONIST Reminds What Animation Should Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"550\" height=\"334\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZElAeVdDCDs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZElAeVdDCDs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"550\" height=\"334\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<p><strong>Official Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An old magician on the decline meets a young girl that will change his life forever. Based on an original script by French comic genius, Jacques Tati.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What We Learned:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rabbits are a tricky sort.<\/li>\n<li>Wonderful animation is <strong>wonderful<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This is not the Ed Norton flick that competed with THE PRESTIGE so many years ago. Please do not confuse the two.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Gonna Watch:<\/strong><br \/>\nFrench director\/writer Sylvain Chomet of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0286244\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE <\/a> fame is directing again. After viewing the trailer for THE ILLUSIONIST we considered renaming the film THANK GOD FOR SYLVAIN CHOMET. All signs hint to this being a genius of animation that puts Disney to shame&#8230;again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve lived all over the place,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says the great French animator Sylvain Chomet, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/film\/7928280\/Sylvain-Chomet-on-The-Illusionist.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">but I seem to do well in countries that need their independence<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, this guy is fast becoming our new animation hero.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When&#8217;s it coming?<\/strong><br \/>\nILLUSIONIST has already released in France and several other countries. It&#8217;s about to drop in the UK. It won&#8217;t hit the US until December. And that will be just a limited release. <\/p>\n<p>Life remains unfair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Official site(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lillusionniste-lefilm.com\/#\/home\" class=\"external external_icon\">http:\/\/www.lillusionniste-lefilm.com\/#\/home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0775489\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0775489\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Illusionist_(2010_film)\" class=\"external external_icon\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Illusionist_(2010_film)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/film\/7928280\/Sylvain-Chomet-on-The-Illusionist.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/L-Illusionniste-poster-e1281939172388.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"where&#039;s that darn rabbit?\" width=\"550\" height=\"796\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12875\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The Illusionist, based on an unproduced script by the legendary French comic actor-director Jacques Tati, is quintessential Chomet. Its hero is Monsieur Tatischeff (Tati\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s real name), an old-school conjuror who closely resembles Tati in his later years. By the late 1950s, he is barely scraping a living in the nightclubs and music halls of Paris. In search of work, he journeys to London, Scotland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Western Isles, and then to Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of The Illusionist is Tatischeff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gentle, father-and-daughter-like relationship with Alice, a young Scottish girl he meets on the isle of Iona. Though he is virtually penniless, he generously showers her with gifts, which she is convinced he can produce by magic.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the film\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strength lies in its visual beauty. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/film\/7928280\/Sylvain-Chomet-on-The-Illusionist.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Every frame looks like a delicate watercolour.<\/a> Chomet has taken great pains to capture Edinburgh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unique geography, architecture and its distinctive light. Its hills, buildings, alleyways, corner shops, vistas and buses look exactly as they did in 1959.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/film\/7928280\/Sylvain-Chomet-on-The-Illusionist.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">telegraph<\/a>, IMDB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official Synopsis An old magician on the decline meets a young girl that will change his life forever. Based on an original script by French comic genius, Jacques Tati. What We Learned: Rabbits are a tricky sort. Wonderful animation is wonderful. This is not the Ed Norton flick that competed with THE PRESTIGE so many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,47,56,28,66,57],"tags":[109,1151,203,1038,36,2987,2988,989,794],"class_list":["post-12870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation-art","category-interviews","category-movies","category-on-the-french","category-one-sheets","category-trailers","tag-better-not-suck","tag-director","tag-magic","tag-movie-poster","tag-quotables","tag-sylvain-chomet","tag-the-illusionist","tag-tuesday-tease","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12870"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12941,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions\/12941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}