Limited Released 11-25-11
1-26-11 at ElCon with Sheila, Kate, Linda
PG-13 (1:40)
RT Critics: 97% Audience: 91%
Rating: 4/Loved it
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
The Weinstein Company
Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo
The whole film is about sound/s. A silent film superstar is ruined when "talkies" and the stock market crash happen simultaneously. Ah, but it was about so much more, too. It was about how the handsome star met a beautiful young ingenue as she was about to begin her career, how she revered him,love him, rocketed to stardom, stayed sane and grounded, and ultimately saved the handsome star. George Valentin and Peppy Miller.
Dujardin has a very ordinary face, but when he smiles, his whole face radiates happiness. It's gorgeous.
And Bejo, with her hip 20's haircut is a combination of ultra-cute and quite beautiful. What a great pairing!
The sounds of the movie were amazingly done throughout. Background silence...or no sound but the clink of a cup on a table surface...or the rise and fall of a great score...sometimes exactly like the old silent movies, sometimes very different. Fascinating.
This movie was a real delight.
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