MVD Entertainment Group will be bringing both DVD
and Blu-ray editions of writer/director Neil Burger’s turn-of-the-century
(Victorian era, that is) romantic mystery, The
Illusionist, to the home entertainment
marketplace as a newly-minted Marquee Collection product offering on June 11.
Austro-Hungarian Empire politics in Vienna during
1889 serve as the backdrop for a forbidden love affair featuring the son of a
cabinet maker-turned-magician, Eisenheim (Edward Norton) and Sophie (Jessica
Biel), the would-be bride of a vicious prince (played by Rufus Sewell).
The story of the affair involving the aforementioned
magician and the young Duchess (Biel) is told in flashback by Vienna’s Chief
Inspector Walter Uhl (Paul Giamatti) to the Emperor as he tries to explain her
murder and how it involves the Emperor’s son, Prince Leopold (Sewell). There’s a peasant magician involved as well,
who has developed a magic act with illusions of the dead woman that cannot be
explained.
This Illusionist is a
clever mystery, with twists and turns and packed with plenty of magician
directed tricks — the art of misdirection — that baffles both Chief Inspector
Uhl and the audience in equal measure.
Remember, with “magic tricks” nothing is as it seems!!
Bonus features include commentary from filmmaker Neil
Burger (The Upside, Divergent, Limitless) and
a pair of featurettes — “The Making of the Illusionist” and “Jessica Biel on
the Illusionist.”
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