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[2006, Movie]

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The Illusionist: Review

Use your illusion: Jessica Biel and Edward Norton
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Based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser's short story "Eisenheim the Illusionist," this handsome, elegant and restrained fable about love, artifice and power in fin de siecle Vienna is lavishly imagined and yet oddly airless. It begins in medias res, as a celebrated conjurer who appears to be communicating with the spirits of the dead is arrested mid-performance by bourgeois Chief Inspector Uhl (Paul Giamatti), who then reports to Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell),... read more

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  • Now You See It, Now You Don't: Bad Mojo in The Prestige | Ask FlickChick | 2/26/2007
    Send your movie questions to FlickChick.The Illusionist and The Prestige: Two Hollywood movies about turn-of–the-century magicians in one year — how'd that happen? Not that it's unusual for competing projects about the same or similar subject matters to go into development, but rarely do both stay the course: A star drops out, financing dries up, someone blinks and then there's only one film left. This week's DVD Tuesday pick is The Prestige, which isn't to say The Illusionist is a bad movie; in fact, they make a great double bill. But The Prestige has a bracing mean streak that warmed the cockles of my dark, dark heart. Impoverished cockney Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and well-born American "Robert Angier" (Hugh Jackman) — he uses a pseudonym so as not to embarrass his family — once worked together under the tutelage of Harry Cutter (Michael Caine), a renowned ingeneur, or a guy who devises and builds mechanical illusions. Both are talented, but in... read more

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Year: 2006
Rated PG
User Rating: (9 ratings)
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Cast
 Edward Norton: Eisenheim
Paul Giamatti: Chief Inspector Uhl
Jessica Biel: Sophie von Teschen
Rufus Sewell: Crown Prince Leopold
Eddie Marsan: Josef Fischer
Jake Wood: Jurka

 

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