Saturday, 9 February 2013

Silence is golden


The Artist (2011)

Directed by Michael Hazanavicius this film stars Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman and James Cromwell. As silent film begins to go out of fashion in favour of the talkies one star of the screen struggles to cope with the change.

What this film does a great job of is evoking the era silent film and has loads of great little details scattered about. Making a silent film that still manages to tell it's story well in the modern era really highlights how much superfluous dialogue there is in modern film making. I also liked how the film holds back explaining the protagonists fear of change right until the final moments of the film.

4/5

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