The Illusionist - Tati is not dead!

After 'The Triplets of Belleville', the successful french animator and filmmaker Sylvain Chomet adapted Tati's story into a film. At the Berlinale festival last February, he noted, “It wasn’t what you’d call a script, it was more like a little novel.”

Set in the 1950s, Tati’s story looks at an aging man—Tati himself—and a young girl (he is said to have written “The Illusionist” for an estranged daughter). The older man, a traveling magician named Tatischeff, introduces the girl to the world at a time when a lot is changing.

Tati’s daughter, Sophie Tatischeff—a fan of Sylvain Chomet’s “The Triplets of Belleville”—tapped Chomet to adapt the unproduced story into an animated film, but she died just four months later.

I neeeeeeeeeed to watch this movie!!