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The Screen Illusion (2010)

The Screen Illusion (2010)

Comedy
Release Date: 2010, December 10
Directors: Mathieu Amalric
Countries: France
Production: Les Films de Pierre, Maïa Cinéma, La Comédie-Française
Cast: Denis Podalydès, Hervé Pierre, Suliane Brahim, Loïc Corbery, Alain Lenglet, Julie Sicard, Adrien Gamba-Gontard, Jean-Baptiste Malartre

Overview:

In this contemporary adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s brilliant, eponymous 17th century play, the enigmatic Alcandre is now a hotel concierge who uses the myriad in-house high-tech security cameras to show worried father Pridamant the whereabouts and travails of his son, Clindor. As Pridamant witnesses the conflicting romances involving his estranged son, Corneille’s modernist meta-narrative is transposed to contemporary Paris, underscoring the ambiguous nature of love, wealth and desire in an age of consumerism. (Chicago International Film Festival)