The Screen Illusion

• Movies
• 2010-12-10
• FR
• Released
• 1h 28m
• FR
• Comedy

• 3.8
• 6

Production

Les Films de Pierre, Maïa Cinéma, La Comédie-Française

Storyline

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)