POTSDAM – Cinema 10 continues its Fall 2011 season Monday, Oct. 17 with a showing of The Illusionist/L’illusionniste, a 2010 animated French film about legendary French actor/comedian Jacques …
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POTSDAM – Cinema 10 continues its Fall 2011 season Monday, Oct. 17 with a showing of The Illusionist/L’illusionniste, a 2010 animated French film about legendary French actor/comedian Jacques Tati.
Films are shown on Mondays at 7:15 p.m. in the Roxy Theater, Main St.
Tickets are $4.50 general / $35 season or $3.50 student/senior/$25 season.
Based on a script written Tati in 1956, The Illusionist pays homage to Tati: its hero is drawn with not just Tati’s looks, but his distinctive body language as well.
At the heart of the plot of this animated homage by Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville) is the journey of a once-famous vaudeville magician named Tatischeff who now finds himself upstaged by his comic but obstreperous rabbit and ignored by audiences who prefer rock and roll to magicians and mimes.
Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times calls it “a remarkable movie: lovely, slow-paced and almost silent, rich with pathos and deft comic gestures.”