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The Illusionist

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With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crown prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector. From TMDB

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  • Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2025

    First teaser for "Marcel & Monsieur Pagnol" movie by Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist...). In French theaters on October 15. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPP5...

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    The Illusionist (2006) 🎬🖤 Directed by Neil Burger

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  • TimTam- (Caudle) - Remembering Roo @caudlewag.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2025

    Making it through... Film source: The Illusionist Clip source: Nostalgiafkninc

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  • Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.socialBluesky · May 10, 2025

    Watched this last night for the first time since it was released. Every bit as beautiful to look at as I remembered but also way more surreal and quite a bit darker. Just a fantastic film. (Need to watch his The Illusionist now, which I've never seen.)

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  • Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    The place I’m staying in only has a projector, which is incompatible with the streaming services on my phone. Only YouTube works. I’m embracing free YouTube movies. Started with The Illusionist. It was fine. Mostly worth it just for Rufus Sewell being maximum evil Rufus Sewell.

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  • Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2025

    Tonight I watched The Illusionist (2006) for the first time, and that was a fun escape of a film.

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 6, 2025

    Toy Story 3 picked up the Animated Film Oscar and a Best Picture nomination that year, but for my money? I would've gone with The Illusionist, based off an unproduced Jacques Tati script and brought to brilliant life by the Triplets of Belleville team. Breathtaking film with *so many emotions.*

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  • Matt McDaniel @themattmcd.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    Today is both Edward Norton's 57th birthday and the 20th anniversary of the release of his movie THE ILLUSIONIST. Watch it kick off a night of his films starting at 8pm ET on Pluto TV Drama: pluto.tv/us/watch/liv...

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  • Julie 🎃👻🎶 @juliemch.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    #MarchMovieChallenge #Moviesky Day 24. Someone performs a magic trick in a movie. The Illusionist (2006)

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  • R2-Danielle2 @msdanielle.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2025

    My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday New for this week: Vengeance The Illusionist - He’s no Gob but I enjoyed the movie Flash Gordon - Contender for campiest movie ever. Flash, whose super power is pretending to play football, looks like if Luke Skywalker just started turning into the Hulk

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2024

    15) The Illusionist (2010) I'm a Jacques Tati guy. Even w/ only six films to his name, he's one of my fave directors. & this animated film based on an unproduced Tati script offers a tantalizing glimpse into what could've been: a whimsical yet quietly devastating piece w/ visual splendor to spare.

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  • Katie D. (she/her) @ktdpi.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    After a wine-filled dinner we decided to go see the movie with the magicians. I spent at least an hour wondering why Edward Norton was getting so much screen time and when Christian Bale would show up. Turns out we were watching The Illusionist and not The Prestige.

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  • DeeEm @deeemceeem.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    #MarchMovieChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky 24 : someone performs a magic trick in a movie The Illusionist (2006)

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  • Animation Dad @animation350.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2025

    My top 25 animated movies made in France. #15 is The Illusionist. I feel like the list has entered another tier with this movie. A mostly silent light fluidly animated wonderful film that almost feels like a silent movie. Don’t expect thrills, but expect something completely absorbing.

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  • Francisca Staines @franciscawrites.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2024

    Can you name a film that was adapted not from a novel, but from a short story? Here's one: The Illusionist (2006) 💙📚👀📚

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  • Animation Magazine @animag.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 2, 2026

    Sony Pictures Classics has announced they will release A Magnificent Life in select theaters nationwide on March 27. Written and directed by four-time Academy Award nominee and BAFTA winner Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist), the... #AMagnificentLife #Align #AsharginPoir

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  • Animation Dad @animation350.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2025

    50 under seen animated movies of this century. My 22nd choice is The Illusionist. A quiet movie some may find slow but I found absorbing. Gorgeous hand drawn animation with no dialogue. If you are patient you will love this.

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  • Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 13, 2026

    The Illusionist (2006) places the very film you’re watching at the center of the illusion. There’s an irony inherent in making a movie about magic. But it also focuses your attention elsewhere, on the illusory properties of movies and storytelling, and how much we love to be dazzled by illusions.

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  • Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2026

    a thing I feel compelled to remind people about all the time: in 2006, people thought The Illusionist was the better magician movie!

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  • Animation Dad @animation350.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    Every weekend I link to a movie free on YouTube, Internet Archive, or Tubi. This week it is a documentary on Satoshi Kon entitled The Illusionist. Make sure to turn on the cc captions for English subtitles. He dies way too young. archive.org/details/sato...

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  • 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐗𝐈𝐀 @cruxia.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2024

    10 Favourite Animated Features The Iron Giant Paprika The Triplets of Belleville Sylvain Chômet's The Illusionist A Goofy Movie The Prince of Egypt James and the Giant Peach Treasure Planet Coraline Perfect Blue

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  • Michael Rookard @jikorijo.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2024

    If you want more Tati, I'd recommend the animated film, The Illusionist, by Sylvain Chonet. It's adapted by original screenplay by Tati (which was possibly written as an apology to his estranged daughter) and has many of the types of gags he liked to put it in his own films. youtu.be/BMqpU7lUlLg?...

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2024

    Forgot a few! -Dolemite Is My Name, great Rudy Ray Moore biopic -The Illusionist, my fave 2010s animated film -Train to Busan, a fantastico Korean zombie joint -One Cut of the Dead, a euphorically exemplary horror film WHERE YOU HAVE TO GO IN SPOILER-FREE, not even looking up *ANY* details on it

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  • SASSAwards @sassawards.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    It is a big day for Edward Norton, he turns 56 and his movie The Illusionist was released on this date in 2006. Vote for all your favorite performances by him on his SASSAward page sassawards.com/Person/819 #sassawards #hbd #moviesky #actorsky #filmsky #directorsky

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  • frapis.bsky.social @frapis.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2026

    The Illusionist. I accidentally watched it twice cause I forgot which was which.

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  • Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2025

    The Prestige-The Illusionist late 1800s European magic crossover movie when?

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  • Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2024

    I forgot how beautifully sad The Illusionist ends (2010 animated film by dir Sylvain Chomet)

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  • Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 13, 2026

    Today's movie (9-13-26) is The Illusionist (2006)

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  • James Mielke @milkman.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    Oooh! Sylvain Chomet’s (Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist) new movie is finally out. tv.apple.com/us/movie/a-m...

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    #MarchMovieChallenge Day 24 - someone performs a magic trick in a movie Eisenheim - The Illusionist #filmsky #moviesky

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  • bleh! i'm 𝙯𝙤𝙚 @tipcalculator.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2025

    The Illusionist (2010, dir. Sylvain Chomet): a quiet French/English animated film controversially adapted from a script by actor/director Jacques Tati intended for his estranged eldest daughter ★★★★

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  • Dawn @dawnddurante.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2024

    He was great in a movie that starred Edward Norton. It's called "The Illusionist."

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  • Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.comBluesky · Oct 23, 2024

    THE ILLUSIONIST is an absolute delight. That film pulls off a nifty POV trick that I shall not reveal because the discovery of if for the viewer is an utter joy. Paul Giamatti is utterly masterful.

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  • Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2026

    The Illusionist is on and this is so totally the kind of movie that mainstream Hollywood just wouldn't make today

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  • En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2025

    The Illusionist is fine, but society did pick the right 2006 stage magician movie with The Prestige. You win this round, society.

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  • Jer Performing Twitch.tv/HeadlessBloodIdol 10-10-26 6:30 PM PDT @whydoisay.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2025

    Have you seen The Illusionist, the animated movie directed by Sylvain Chomet with a screenplay based on a script written by Jacques Tati for a movie he never made in his lifetime?

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  • Lizzie @secretusliber.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 29, 2023

    Quote skeet with one of your fav films that isn't a huge hit, let's get to know each other a bit more Truly the better of the two magician films of 2006. I’m absolutely enthralled by this film every time I watch it. The only good thing about The Prestige is Bowie. The Illusionist is perfect.

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  • crgn @crgn.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2026

    Yeah. My mum grew up in Scotland and when she tried to read Diana Gabaldon many years ago, she got to a bit where the heroine goes into a Scottish pub on her own and gave up as it was too far-fetched. Similar story with the film The Illusionist. They used to be no-go places for many people.

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  • shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.meBluesky · Aug 14, 2026

    Don't know if y'all have seen the movie The Illusionist. If I ever went into christianity and became a pastor, that's exactly the kinda shit I'd be doing, lol. My pulpit would be the stage, and every sermon would literally be me putting up a proper show, with lighting, batteries, sound effects, etc.

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  • Armando Roque 🇻🇪 🏳️‍🌈 @armandoroqueccs.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    #MarchMovieChallenge @omacolt.bsky.social March 24: someone performs a magic trick in a movie. Edward Norton as Eisenheim the Illusionist/Eduard Abramovich in The Illusionist (Neil Burger, 2006). youtu.be/i0xO64icGSY?...

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  • Skip the Red Mage @skiprodriguez.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2026

    Decided to write a longer than usual review about, The Illusionist on my Letterboxd. Which made me want to ask anyone who sees this a few questions… What is your opinion on the phenomenon of “Twin Films”? And Is it fair to compare this film to, The Prestige? #Letterboxd #FilmSky

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  • Lary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2026

    The Illusionist (2006) places the very film you’re watching at the center of the illusion. There’s an irony inherent in making a movie about magic. But it also focuses your attention elsewhere, on the illusory properties of movies and storytelling, and how much we love to be dazzled by illusions.

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  • ireneadler2.bsky.social @ireneadler2.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2025

    Watched a great old movie tonite The Illusionist. It's going to be another hot one tomorrow so CU2MAM4 ☕& #mancrushmonday ⤵️

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  • Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.socialBluesky · May 10, 2025

    I saw The Illusionist IN THE CINEMA featured in the film. It was a lovely moment (part of Edinburgh International Film Festival) and is a lovely lovely film.

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  • Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2024

    'The Illusionist' - how can I put this nicely? - doesn't strike me as a film that is crying out to be made into a musical. And it particularly doesn't strike me as a film that is crying out to be made into an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical directed by Jamie Lloyd.

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2024

    -The Illusionist was based off an unproduced Tati screenplay, and I feel it's shame that it was never made into a film by Tati himself. There's a quiet but staggering power that makes it my fave animated film of that year (even over Toy Story 3)... hell, my fave 2010 film. Enjoy, and happy viewing!

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2024

    A pity. I adore that movie, and the Tati-inspired followup project from the same team, The Illusionist. [I say that as a xennial.]

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  • Phrancq 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️ @phrancq.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2026

    Today's film was The Illusionist (2006). I really liked this. It doesn't hurt that 70% of it is Paul Giamatti being great, but (almost) everyone else turned in really good performances too. And I'm a sucker for a Philip Glass score.

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  • Carl M:FeverDream🖤💙🗿🎧📚🎶 @atimeofcrisis.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    Thank you. I did like The Prestige, both movie and book. (I liked The Illusionist too, to be fair 🙂) I'll add The Night Circus to my 'give it a try' list. I don't automatically dismiss an author after just one read. (Stephen Graham Jones is next) 📚💙 #BookSky

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  • Animation Dad @animation350.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2026

    Recommending a full year of my favourite animated films at random, day 15 of 365. Today is my 216th favourite animated film. Sylvian Chomet‘s The Illusionist is a gentle, detailed gem of a film. youtu.be/PhiADzGdB1Y

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  • TheHouseOnHauntedHero @theherooftomorrow.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 23, 2026

    44. The Illusionist (2010). I REALLY wanted to like this one more. I will say that I love the movie's art style. It kinda has that Professor Layton/Triplets of Belleville vibe to it, except with slightly less exaggerated character designs, and that's an art style I've always liked.-

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  • Saturn J. Blues | The Vtuber with Opinions @saturnbluesgaming.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2026

    You know what's crazy? This movie and my favorite magician movie, The Illusionist, came out in the same damn year, months apart, and both were absolute bangers. FOR NO REASON. Like, The Illusionist was romance and whimsy and The Prestige was bitterness and dark, but both complement each other in

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  • Thom Weaver @thomweaver24.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2026

    I don’t know if it’s your jam or not, but amongst many movies he’s scored is The Illusionist, which is a pretty cool film and his music is quite stunning. Also The Truman Show, I believe

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  • Feliks J Fuzzywing @ffuzzywing.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 27, 2025

    Micro Film Review: The Illusionist (2006) The plot is shlock but man does this movie have style. It is absolutely gorgeous to look at and takes you back to a whole era of film.

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  • Elliott Dunstan -- GROTESQUE Oct 13th! @fiversdream.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2025

    rewatched The Illusionist tonight and what a transcendent fucking movie.

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  • Steve, soul of cinder 🗡🔥💀 @stevoyah.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2025

    Now rewatching the Illusionist An incredible film

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  • Skwigly Animation Magazine @skwigly.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2025

    #AMagnificentLife is the latest film to come from revered director #SylvainChomet, best known for 2003's Belleville Rendez-Vous and 2010's The Illusionist Read our review of the film which screens this week at @annecyfestival.bsky.social www.skwigly.co.uk/annecy-2025-...

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  • SHEP @stupidshepherd.bsky.socialBluesky · May 20, 2025

    Sleeping Beauty Wreck-It Ralph Kung Fu Panda 3 The Illusionist Tarzan Howl’s Moving Castle Honorable Mentions Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie The Secret of Kells Mary and The Witch’s Flower The Boy and the Beast Sausage Party Akira

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  • Bruno Dies @brunodias.devBluesky · Mar 23, 2025

    INT. MOVIE STUDIO BOARDROOM Movie Exec 1: Okay, so I think we're pretty close to greenlighting The Illusionist. Edward Norton has signed up and we've attached Neil Burger to direct. Now we just need a costar. Movie Exec 2: How about Kirsten Dunst? Morgott, the Omen King: I COMMAND THEE: BIEL!

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  • 🎃 Spectral 🎃 @spectralsedai.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2025

    A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is a Persian language movie that's best described as a western horror with a kickass skateboarding vampire. The Illusionist is an animated French movie that's very bitter sweet and has stuck with me ever since I watched it

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