Danny Boyle’s ‘Trance’ Trailer

Here’s the debut trailer for Danny Boyle‘s new film Trance starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, and Vincent Cassel. The film centers around an art thief who, after sustaining a head injury, cannot remember where hit hid a priceless painting.  Rosario Dawson comes into play as a therapist who hypnotizes him in order to find the piece for Vincent Cassel.

Trance hits cinemas in the UK March 27th, but currently doesn’t have a US release date.  Hit the jump for the full synopsis and trailer.

TRANCE, directed by Oscar®-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) and co-written by Oscar®-nominated long term collaborator John Hodge (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting) is a seductive and enigmatic thriller starring James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel and Rosario Dawson.

Fine art auctioneer Simon (McAvoy), in league with a gang led by underworld boss Franck (Cassel), plots the audacious theft of a masterpiece by Goya from a major public auction. When Simon double-crosses the gang during the robbery, Franck retaliates violently and knocks him unconscious. In the aftermath of the heist, Simon sticks stubbornly – and perhaps shrewdly – to his claim that the violent trauma has left him with no memory of where he stashed the artwork.

Unable to coerce the painting’s location from Simon, Franck and his associates reluctantly join forces with a charismatic hypnotherapist (Dawson) in a bid to get him to talk. But as they journey deeper into Simon’s jumbled psyche the boundaries between reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur and the stakes rise faster and far more dangerously than any of the players could have anticipated.