Trance
A burglary occurred at a painting auction room, the assistant becomes the hero when he opposed thieves but finally the painting is missing. All eyes flocking to him to find the painting, but he can not remember anything, even the fact that he is an accomplice of the burglary. A hypnotist is invited to solve the problem but she is his old lover that he can not remember. What is the truth in this maze of memories?
23 November 1966, Paris, France
21 April 1979, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
9 May 1979, New York City, New York, USA
21 February 1987, Bristol, England, UK
26 July 1972, St. Asaph, Wales, UK
15 November 1970, London, England, UK
April 17, 2016
It's a deliriously head-spinning exercise in light and sound, attacking the audience's senses while spitting in the face of linear storytelling, smiling all the while.
April 12, 2013
Trance is to Danny Boyle more or less as Side Effects was to Steven Soderbergh: an arty spin on a trashy B-movie, engineered to showcase the director's particular gifts.
April 11, 2013
The plot of Trance is purposely convoluted - you're supposed to get more and more confused as the story unfolds, not always sure if what you're watching is a dream.
August 11, 2014
In less qualified hands, Trance wouldn't be this entertaining.
July 14, 2016
Trance is your biennial reminder that Danny Boyle is one of our greatest living directors.
January 06, 2014
Trance is high-order, film noir nonsense that takes Boyle back to the thrillers he made at the start of his career with John Hodge (he wrote Trance, too), like Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, that were preoccupied with the grimy corners of the psyche.
April 12, 2013
The story draws us in even through the murk.
June 21, 2016
It's not that I don't think Boyle knows, by the time things start to get really bananas in the second half, that his movie is silly. I'm jut not convinced that he ever decided how he felt about it.
December 12, 2013
In the first half I was definitely invested in what was unfolding, but couldn't believe by the end that director Boyle could deliver something so ham fisted and clunky.
April 12, 2013
I came away wondering whether the headache I left the theater with was such a bad -- or even unintentional -- thing after all.
February 20, 2014
It goes off the rails, but in a way that's exciting and reinvigorating.
April 12, 2013
Dawson walks through this film with majestic confidence while McAvoy is constantly inches from a full breakdown. And Boyle keeps that tension mesmerizing.
