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December 14, 2005
Chomet meets Tati: It's the memory of the hand
In the January 2006 Esquire, The Triplets of Belleville's Sylvain Chomet says he's staying silent, but his next film is based on an unproduced Jacques Tati script, The Illusionist, which he's setting in Edinburgh. The story is about "an aging magician (portrayed by an animated Tati) who befriends a young girl in Scotland and can't bear to tell her that his magic is not real... Because it's Jacques Tati... I have to get his character perfectly. He's a very, very difficult character to get. We're used to seeing him with a hat and with a pipe in his mouth. When you remove those, he looks different. Sometimes, I take a sheet of paper, and without looking at the model, I try to draw it again. It has to be in my hand. It's the memory of the hand." There's also a 2004 profile of Chomet, talking about the film to Scotland's Sunday Herald. [The print edition of Esquire has three very nice drawings by Chomet.]
Posted by pride at December 14, 2005 03:10 PM
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