The Screen Illusion
movie
View on VideBits →In this contemporary adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s brilliant, eponymous 17th century play, the enigmatic Alcandre is now a hotel concierge who uses the myriad in-house high-tech security cameras to show worried father Pridamant the whereabouts and travails of his son, Clindor. As Pridamant witnesses the conflicting romances involving his estranged son, Corneille’s modernist meta-narrative is transposed to contemporary Paris, underscoring the ambiguous nature of love, wealth and desire in an age of consumerism. (Chicago International Film Festival)
Cast & crew
Adrien Gamba-Gontard · Alain Lenglet · Denis Podalydès · Hervé Pierre · Jean-Baptiste Malartre · Julie Sicard · Loïc Corbery · Suliane Brahim · Mathieu Amalric