The Illusionist (PG-13, 2006)
Directed by Neil Burger; starring: Edward Norton …. Eisenheim; Paul Giamatti …. Inspector Uhl; Jessica Biel …. Sophie; Rufus Sewell …. Crown Prince Leopold; Eddie Marsan …. Josef Fischer (as Edward Marsan); Jake Wood …. Jurka; Tom Fisher …. Willigut; and many more. Turn of the century Vienna, a young man learns the art of illusion and dazzles the village princess. Forbidden to see each other, they sneak off and are violently separated. Upset and abandoned, he sets off to travel the world and becomes a world-renown illusionist – only to find his way back to his love. As he finds ways to twist the illusions as covers to see her once again, breaking taboos again, he seeks to find a way to spend the rest of his life with her, even if it must embrace death. Excellent movie … 5 stars out of 5.
