Do you wanna Trance?

A film that puts audiences to sleep is not a good thing, except when it’s directed by Oscar winner Danny Boyle and viewers are “getting very sleepy” to the seductive psychological mystery he has set squarely at the intersection of the fine art world, mobsters and mind games.

Hypnosis is both a main character and the secret weapon in the Slumdog Millionaire director’s new film Trance, the headiest mainstream thriller since 2010’s brain-bender Inception.

James McAvoy stars as an art auctioneer who, after a daring heist, finds himself under the boot of a local gangster played by Vincent Cassel and under the spell of a manipulative hypnotist played by Rosario Dawson.

Where is the stolen painting? The answer to that question and McAvoy’s survival might be locked inside his own head. Trance is a reunion of Boyle with Trainspotting writer John Hodge and arrives in theaters April 5.

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