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Article: Screen magic: The actors and atmosphere in 'The Illusionist' mesmerize with romance, intrigue.(Movie review)
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2006
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Byline: Michael Sragow
Aug. 18--B To billions of filmgoers, the essence of "movieness" may be something immediate, simple and viscerally satisfying, like snakes on a plane. But to an equally red-blooded audience with a taste for romantic conspiracy, movieness could be action filled with the white and black magic of political subterfuge and hocus-pocus. A time and place draped in elegant or risky mysteries like turn-of-the-century Vienna. And characters exuding intrigue -- from a low-born illusionist named Eisenheim (Edward Norton) and his eye-popping true love, Duchess Sophie von Teschen (Jessica Biel), to his dashing rival for her hand, the ambitious Crown ...
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Article: Edward Norton.(GOTHAM TRIBUTES)
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November 29, 2006 ;
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... ... commercial films be cause they all resonated with what's been going on around me at the time." Norton kicked off 2006 in Neil Burger's "The Illusionist," playing a magician in turn-of-the-century Vienna who uses his gifts to woo the woman he loves ...
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