The Prestige (2006)

Recommended

USA/UK

Feature Film

Director: Christopher Nolan

Writers: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Priest

Cinematographer: Wally Pfister

Composer: David Julyan

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Piper Perabo, Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Samantha Mahurin, David Bowie, Andy Serkis

Nolan’s gorgeously shot, expertly structured, and slyly entertaining adaptation of Priest’s late 19th century set science fiction novel depicts the obsessive rivalry that builds up between two successful magicians, former friends and colleagues, after the onstage death of one of their wives, following their increasingly desperate attempts to one-up each other. Iain.Stott