Film · 2011 · Romantic comedy
The Artist
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
2011
France
★ 5.0 editorial score
The first silent film to take Best Picture since 1929, made by a French director nobody in Hollywood knew: a star of the silents watches sound arrive and refuses to adapt.
“The debonair comedy and pastiche are worn with airy lightness; the romance is gentle and yet unexpectedly passionate. It is an utterly beguiling love story and a miracle of entertainment, which unexpectedly says a good deal about male pride and emotional literacy. It even, in its insouciant way, touches on the question of whether the art of cinema was purer when it was silent.”
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