At The Cinema: The Illusionist

In a world where nothing is as it appears, The Illusionist is a supernatural mystery that that combines romance, politics and magic. In the latest film from the producers of the Oscar winners Crash and Sideway, the film stars Academy Award nominees Edward Norton (Fight Club, American History X) and Paul Giamatti (Cinderella Man, Sideways) and Jessica Biel (Elizabethtown).

Norton plays a mysterious stage magician, Eisenheim, who bends nature’s laws to his will in front of awestruck crowds. Giamatti co-stars as Vienna’s shrewd Chief Inspector Uhl, a man committed to uphold the law and for whom magic holds no place in his ordered world. Jessica Biel shares the screen as the beautiful and enigmatic Sophie von Teschen, who finds her future inexorably altered when she encounters the man called Eisenheim, and Eisenheim comes dangerously close to unlocking the dark secret of the monarchy that she holds.

Blurring the line between power and corruption, love and devotion, vigilance and mania and ultimately, life and death, The Illusionist is a mesmerizing film released across UK cinemas on 2nd March.

Find out more by visiting the-illusionist.co.uk.