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Bookmark this pageThe Screen Illusion (2010)
Director: Mathieu Amalric
Movie review
From Time Out Online
Actor Amalric’s quirky if rewarding career as a writer-director continues with this commission from the Comédie Française, a taut, pacy updating of Corneille’s remarkable play, which as long ago as 1636 played with various levels of theatre-within-theatre. It’s utterly suitable, therefore, for a contemporary treatment set in a plush Parisian hotel and involving surveillance cameras, high-flying businessmen and shootouts. Crucially, as the wizard-like concierge Alcandre helps Pridamant in his search for his errant son Clindor – who’s caught up in a complex romantic intrigue involving his boss’s daughter – Corneille’s rhyming verse is retained, which not only allows for considerable wit and poetry but also highlights the astonishing imaginative modernity of the original concept.Author: Geoff Andrew
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2011
Cast & crew
Director: Mathieu Amalric
Cast: Loïc Corbery, Suliane Brahim, Hervé Pierre, Alain Lenglet, Denis Podalydes
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 77 mins
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