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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.
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Tygh Runyan
Mitchell Haven
Shannyn Sossamon
Laurel Graham / Velma Duran
Dominique Swain
Nathalie Post
Cliff DeYoung
Cary Stewart / Rafe Taschen
John Diehl
Bobby Billings
Fabio Testi
Nestor Duran
Bonnie Pointer
Self
Josep M. Civit
Cinematography
Monte Hellman
Director
Monte Hellman
Producer
Steven Gaydos
Producer
Steven Gaydos
Writer
The strange case of detective Jones
Double Indemnity
The Big Sleep
Dolls
The Birds
The Man Who Knew Too Much
It Happened in Broad Daylight
Scarface
2046
Dangerous Liaisons
Bullitt
The China Syndrome
Frenzy
Mission: Impossible III
Next Door
Maggie Moore(s)
Seven Years of Night
Sliver
Lost Joy
D Company
Presumed Innocent
The Black Book
Awake
River Wild
The Number 23
Dead Man's Folly
Crooked House
The Commuter
Drop
The International
The Infernal Machine
Trigger Point
All the Devils Are Here
Last Man Down
Cleaner
5lbs of Pressure
Righteous Kill
Mindcage
Brake
Hangman
Jun 10, 2011
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1978 · 13 wins
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