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L'ILLUSION COMIQUE - French Film Fest
Country of Origin: France 
Year: 2011
Runtime: 77 min
Language: French w/English sub-titles
Director: Mathieu Amalric
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Synopsis
Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2012
A father is looking for the son he hasn't seen for years in this contemporary adaptation of the seventeenth-century play by Pierre Corneille. Acted vivaciously by performers from the Comedie Francaise, who recite their texts in alexandrines. Mathieu Amalric was commissioned by the Comedie Francaise to make this adaptation of Pierre Corneille's 1635 play. A tour de force considering the alexandrines in which Corneille wrote the story, maintained in the new version. L'illusion comique, part of a series of contemporary theatre films by the Comedie, tells the story of a father looking for a son who left home years before. In order to find out what he's doing, the father hires a magician: the concierge of a hotel, where a room with security cameras replaces the old magic crystal ball. Traveling back and forth in time, the video shots reveal the son's large, tragicomic life. The continuous play of watching and being watched, fiction and reality, turn L'illusion comique into a homage to the playwright and theatrical illusion.
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