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Trance

  • 20132013
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  • 1h 41m
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6.9/10
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Trance (2013)
An art auctioneer who has become mixed up with a group of criminals partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting.
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An art auctioneer becomes mixed up with a group of criminals partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting.An art auctioneer becomes mixed up with a group of criminals partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting.An art auctioneer becomes mixed up with a group of criminals partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
114K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
6,182
1,197
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Danny Boyle
    • Writers
      • Joe Ahearne(screenplay)
      • John Hodge(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • James McAvoy
      • Rosario Dawson
      • Vincent Cassel
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Danny Boyle
    • Writers
      • Joe Ahearne(screenplay)
      • John Hodge(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • James McAvoy
      • Rosario Dawson
      • Vincent Cassel
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 249User reviews
    • 401Critic reviews
    • 61Metascore
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 3 nominations

    Videos4

    Theatrical Version
    Trailer 1:39
    Theatrical Version
    "The Drill"
    Clip 1:59
    "The Drill"
    "Overall Conversation"
    Featurette 6:25
    "Overall Conversation"
    "Music"
    Featurette 5:49
    "Music"

    Photos120

    James McAvoy in Trance (2013)
    Vincent Cassel and James McAvoy in Trance (2013)
    Rosario Dawson in Trance (2013)
    Danny Boyle and Rosario Dawson in Trance (2013)
    James McAvoy in Trance (2013)
    James McAvoy in Trance (2013)
    Rosario Dawson in Trance (2013)
    Danny Boyle and Vincent Cassel in Trance (2013)
    Vincent Cassel in Trance (2013)
    James McAvoy in Trance (2013)
    James McAvoy in Trance (2013)
    Vincent Cassel, Rosario Dawson, James McAvoy, Danny Sapani, and Wahab Sheikh in Trance (2013)

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    James McAvoy
    James McAvoy
    • Simon
    Rosario Dawson
    Rosario Dawson
    • Elizabeth
    Vincent Cassel
    Vincent Cassel
    • Franck
    Danny Sapani
    Danny Sapani
    • Nate
    Matt Cross
    • Dominic
    Wahab Sheikh
    • Riz
    Mark Poltimore
    • Francis Lemaitre
    Tuppence Middleton
    Tuppence Middleton
    • Young Woman in Red Car
    Simon Kunz
    Simon Kunz
    • Surgeon
    Michael Shaeffer
    Michael Shaeffer
    • Security Guard #1
    Tony Jayawardena
    • Security Guard #2
    Vincent Montuel
    • Handsome Waiter
    Jai Rajani
    • Car Park Attendant
    Spencer Wilding
    Spencer Wilding
    • 60's Robber
    Gursharan Chaggar
    • Postman
    Edward Rising
    • 60's Auctioneer
    Kimberly Barrios
    Kimberly Barrios
    • Office Assistant
    • (uncredited)
    Gioacchino Jim Cuffaro
    Gioacchino Jim Cuffaro
    • Auction Punter
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Danny Boyle
    • Writers
      • Joe Ahearne(screenplay) (story)
      • John Hodge(screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      All the actors underwent hypnosis as part of their preparation for the film. James McAvoy claimed that his hypnotism session was successful and left him unable to move his hand during the duration of the session.
    • Goofs
      When Franck steals the painting from Simon in the beginning, he is not wearing gloves. He continues not wearing gloves until he jumps into the yellow plastic tube from the roof. Suddenly he emerges in the dumpster wearing gloves.
    • Quotes

      Elizabeth: We keep secrets from lots of people, but most of all we keep them from ourselves. And we call that forgetting.

    • Crazy credits
      After the closing credits have rolled, the audience hears the familiar five taps on the glass window that was an iconic audible signature throughout the film.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Graham Norton Show: Quentin Tarantino/James McAvoy/Alan Davies/Emeli Sandé (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      Hold My Hand
      Performed by Unkle

      Written by James Lavelle, Richard File, Chris Goss, David Catching

      (contains a sample of "Be My Wife" written by David Bowie)

      Courtesy of Surrender All Ltd & RZO Music Ltd

    User reviews249

    Review
    Top review
    8/10
    You're getting sleepy…. NOT! Or my review of Trance ****
    After my review of several of the summer blockbusters with their falling skyscrapers, mega explosions, burning barges, and exploding spaceships, and all that burning smoking destruction, Trance was almost literally a breath of fresh air.(Okay there was some tear gas and a burning car at the end of this movie but you get the point….) And speaking of SciFi... although there is one element that borders on science fiction I won't reveal the twist here as it really doesn't take away from the enjoyment of the film in the slightest.

    I suppose you could say the movie is slightly formulaic but it's formulaic as a heist movie, as a gangster film, as a psychological thriller, as a film noir mystery romance. It's the blend of all these in a masterful interweaving of genres that makes Danny Boyle such a master film maker.

    From his beginnings with his morbid masterpiece of Hitckcockian tale of normal people in situations that spiral out of control in Shallow Grave, to the hyper reality of Trainspotting and it's excellent music soundtrack that also blended genres., Boyle has shown a deft hand at mixing things up, telling extremely engaging stories. He attempts genres and makes them his own like no one has since Kubrick. And while unlike Kubrick greatest movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, Boyle's science fiction movie Sunshine is the only genre, that in my opinion, was his only less than success. Things like his Zombie movie 28 Days Later... or his Bollywood movie Slumdog Millionaire are some of my all time favorite movies.

    And while Trance is a scaled back movie in every sense, an extremely British movie with relatively unknown cast, all his skills are evident. And when I say British I mean British…. It's one of those that even though they are speaking English, subtitles would have helped immensely. But having said that I must say that "unknown" cast is exquisite, with a bit of IMDb.com research I was able to find things like the lead character James McAvoy was the main guy against Forest Whitaker's Idi Amin in the excellent The Last King of Scotland, or the main gangster type guy Vincent Cassel has been the baddie in many films including the 'baddie' director explaining the seduction of and his own seducing of Swan Lake in The Black Swan, and Rosario Dawson I remember from Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse "Death Proof" segment, or one of the femme fatales in Sin City. So this trilogy of excellent bit actors in the hands of a master pull off the most engaging, mind twisting, bizarre love triangles in film history. As I mentioned before the juggling of genres start off with the excellence tension of a heist movie, and as it enters the psychological thriller, what happens after the heist is revisited in jumbled flashbacks as McAvoy's character receives a head injury and can't remember what happened. He visits a therapist specializing in hypnotherapy to help in remembering and quickly she's entangled in the what happened to the stolen painting, and of course there's the film noir elements of who's playing who.

    I even liked how the film as it's title suggests hypnotically takes you into the art world, particularly the world of stolen paintings. I had fun researching the stolen paintings it mentions like Rembrandt's "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee". But the labyrinth of revealing what was locked inside the main character's mind is all done in a hypnotic style, with mind-bending twist of dreams with-in dreams etc.. . but also in the romantic entanglement that has you wondering who has the upper hand as guards are let down and weaknesses exposed and in one of the movie's not so obvious twists, is the fact you actually begin to like the bad guy? In particular, I had to track down the excellent song "Sandman" by Kirsty McGee as it's dreamy lilting melody perfectly underscores that feeling not quite being in control in a dream yet not caring and enjoying that floating feeling.

    As I mentioned before there is some suspension of disbelief, and some major plots holes that may cause the story to fall apart if examined too closely and a more discerning skeptic might find major fault under that close of an examination, and it's does knock off a star value for me for sure. But I found the trip through this mind maze and romantic entanglement to be most enjoyable.
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    • Jun 18, 2013

    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 27, 2013 (United Kingdom)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
      • France
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official Facebook (Brazil)
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Mê Cung Ký Uc
    • Filming locations
      • Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp, Ronchamp, Haute-Saône, France
    • Production companies
      • Pathé
      • Cloud Eight Films
      • Decibel Films
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $20,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $2,328,743
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $131,145
      • Apr 7, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $24,261,569
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Atmos
      • SDDS
      • Datasat
      • Dolby Surround 7.1
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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