French animator Sylvain Chomet’s second feature film, The Illusionist (L’Illusionniste), is adapted from an original screenplay by Jacques Tati that was never produced. Tati was the great French actor-writer-director of such comedies as Mr. Hulot’s Holiday and Mon Oncle featuring Tati as the character of Monsieur Hulot, a bumbling, pipe-smoking comic character. The Illusionist was inspired by Tati’s daughter and was intending as a work for the two of them together.
