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Sunday, August 10, 2025

Classical animation in The Illusionist

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The Il­lu­sion­ist which is screened to­day as part of the Eu­ro­pean Film Fes­ti­val (EFF) was de­scribed by one of the UK's lead­ing film crit­ics, Pe­ter Brad­shaw of The Guardian, as "ut­ter­ly dis­tinc­tive and be­guil­ing."Syl­vain Chomet's clas­si­cal­ly con­ceived, hand-drawn an­i­ma­tion tells the sto­ry of a once-cel­e­brat­ed stage ma­gi­cian, Tatis­cheff who sees his fame dry up in Paris in the late 1950s. He packs up his be­long­ings–in­clud­ing an ill-tem­pered white rab­bit–and heads to Lon­don to find work. His for­tunes con­tin­ue to floun­der, un­til one night a drunk­en par­ty pa­tron in­vites him to a re­mote Scot­tish is­land. Here he meets Al­ice, an or­phaned young woman. Their en­su­ing ad­ven­tures to­geth­er change both their lives for­ev­er.The EFF runs un­til May 27 at Movi­eTowne Port-of-Spain and Movi­eTowne To­ba­go. Tick­ets for all screen­ings are $30 each, with tick­ets for chil­dren and stu­dents (in uni­form or with stu­dent ID) priced at $20.

TO­DAY'S FILMS AT THE EFF

Movi­eTowne PoS

11 am–The Miss­ing Lynx (El lince per­di­do): Ra�l Gar­cia, Manuel Cin­cil­ia, 2008, Ger­many / 97 mins

1.15 pm–The Strange Lit­tle Cat: Ra­mon Z�rcher, 2013, Ger­many / 72 mins

3.30 pm–Big Boys Gone Ba­nanas!: Fredrick Gert­ten, 2011, Swe­den / 90 mins

5.45 pm–The Il­lu­sion­ist (L'il­lu­sion­niste): Syl­vain Chomet, 2010, France / 80 mins

8 pm–Alan Par­tridge: Al­pha Pa­pa: De­clan Lowney, 2013, UK / 90 mins

Movi­eTowne To­ba­go

3.30 pm–Big Boys Gone Ba­nanas!: Fredrick Gert­ten, 2011, Swe­den/90 mins

5.45 pm–Gin­ger & Rosa: Sal­ly Pot­ter, 2012, UK / 88 mins

8 pm–35 Shots of Rum (35 rhums): Claire De­nis, 2008, France / 100 mins.


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