Seeing Is Believing, and More, in 'the Illusionist'

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From out of thin 21st-century air, "The Illusionist" conjures up an elegantly old-school filmmaking aura as it transports us back to turn-of-the-century Vienna for some serious spell casting.

Once there, we're confronted by a group of players who read like something out of a fairy tale: a dogged police inspector, a mysterious magician, a power-hungry prince and the prince's aristocratic young mistress.

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Seeing Is Believing, and More, in 'the Illusionist'

Bundle them together through love, lust, jealousy and pursuit, and you've got something that feels like it must have been written at least around the time the story is set (1900).

That illusion isn't dispelled ...

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