The Screen Illusion

The Screen Illusion (2010)

L'Illusion comique

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)

Date of release
2010-12-10
TMDB
3.8 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Mathieu Amalric

Casting

Interesting facts

The Screen Illusion is a French television film directed by Mathieu Amalric and aired on 17 December 2010, on France 2. It is a loose adaptation of Corneille's play L'Illusion Comique from 1636. This work, which is not a recording, was made with the actors of the Comédie-Française, the sponsoring institution of the work, but in an original staging conceived by Mathieu Amalric, different from that of Galin Stoev performed at the Comédie-Française starting from December 2008, partly concurrently.

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