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Show all (5)It's the late 1920s in Hollywood and handsome George Valentin is a silent movie idol. During the premiere of his latest film, Valentin meets Peppy Miller, a star-struck extra and aspiring actress. The two are attracted to each other and Peppy is given a small dancing role in his next picture. As their romance progresses, Valentin's producer has to cope with a love-struck star who is distracted on the set, Peppy's career begins to take off, and Valentin fears that a new fad in the movie business--talkies--will ruin him.
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Michel Hazanavicius' black-and-white, mostly silent comedy The Artist is a gorgeously made curiosity -- a film that functions as a testament to its own obsession with other movies. Hazanavicius has lovingly re-created the look, feel and rhythms of silent movies, from the 1.33:1 aspect ratio that renders the image a shimmering square on a modern-day rectangular screen, to the artfully designed intertitles that communicate what little dialogue there is. He's also conjured up a clever meta-story, with shades of Singin' in the Rain and A Star Is Born, about a silent film star clinging to the past as Hollywood eagerly embraces the future.
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