Danny Boyle induces a hypnotic TRANCE

[Jerry007]

Synopsis from movieweb.com:
Fine art auctioneer Simon (McAvoy), in league with a gang led by underworld boss Franck (Cassel), plots the audacious theft of a masterpiece by Goya from a major public auction. When Simon double-crosses the gang during the robbery, Franck retaliates violently and knocks him unconscious.

In the aftermath of the heist, Simon sticks stubbornly – and perhaps shrewdly – to his claim that the violent trauma has left him with no memory of where he stashed the artwork.

Unable to coerce the painting’s location from Simon, Franck and his associates reluctantly join forces with a charismatic hypnotherapist (Dawson) in a bid to get him to talk. But as they journey deeper into Simon’s jumbled psyche the boundaries between reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur and the stakes rise faster and far more dangerously than any of the players could have anticipated.

Movie opens 1 may.

 

[ExK]

it looks intriguing ... I think James McAvoy is becoming more and more charismatic as as an actor.

 

[Da_Face]

To say that Trance is this year's Inception, is to do either films a disservice. But if I were to lean toward a preference, then Danny Boyle's latest movie has an edge for being succinct in its tale, little loopholes and while fewer characters, is no less complex, but equally stylish in treatment, and bold in its story-telling, dealing with the premise of a heist gone wrong, and hypnosis being the last resort to get into the deepest recesses of the mind for the secrets it harbours.

Continues at (A Nutshell) Review: Trance - Probably Singapore's #1 Movie Review Blog

 

[Smartypants]

Aesthetically-pleasing sequence of scenes building up to a absolute anti-climax. What could otherwise have been a cool heist flick let down by quick succession of Hollywood cliches passing off as an ending.


If Elizabeth Lamb was that powerful as to influence Simon Newton to steal art and shit, why didn't she just influence him to be a better boyfriend instead of that memory alteration rubbish ? Maybe she got the idea after watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ? I dunno. Just maybe.