On Arthur's Seat, looking west over Salisbury Crags
Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, the film opening the 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival, puts a vision of Edinburgh, and rural Scotland, on screen like no other. Set in 1950s Edinburgh and the Western Isles, locations depicted in the animated feature include Princes Street, The Balmoral Hotel, Broughton Place, George Street, Arthur's Seat and Oban.
The product of five years' work in an animation studio that Chomet (Belleville Rendezvous) set up in Edinburgh when he fell in love with the capital after attending its International Film Festival, this is an uncannily accurate portrayal of Edinburgh and Scotland. The story is an unfilmed script from Jacques Tati and the…
Chomet tries to seduce Edinburgh with lies about a love letter to Scotland in an attempt to hide a very sad real life story as to why Jacques Tati wrote the Illusionist that Chomet’s adaptation spitefully disregards much to the distaste of one very one very Scottish family name.
Chomet it would appear never met or spoke to Sophie Tatischeff and hides behind her as dead woman can’t speak, he didn't read the Illusionist script until 2003, 2 years after she died.
EIFF should question the morals behind what it supports.
@GP_1966 Nonsense. You argue Chomet "spitefully disregards" Tati's private family dramas which may or may not have motivated him to write this script. In fact Chomet quite rightly focuses on the script itself, unlike you, whoever you are.
This film looks to be a perfect choice for the EIFF, in my humble but reasonably sane opinion.
After an evening of drunken research, we have established that on his journey to the isles, the illusionist passes over the Lochy Railway bridge, takes the ferry past Duart Castle, disembarks at Craignure, before taking the wee boat from Fionnphort to Iona. The car crash took place at the junction of the A849 and the B8035 near Pennyghail. My brother-in-law has only had one car accident in his life and its was on the same road with a certain 'Peter Gentleman'. Geekery abounds!
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