Cinema
The Artist
2011 / France / 100 mins / Dir: Michel Hazanavicius
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, John Goodman, Bérénice Bejo, Jean Dujardin
The seven times BAFTA and five times Oscar award-winning silent movie that has got everybody talking.
Set in Hollywood in 1927, George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is the one of the biggest movie stars around, handsome, suave and moustached he has women everywhere swooning after him. But, will the new invention of talkies and Valentin’s determination to stick to the silent way of making films, mean an end to his career? For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), who Valentin once mentored, it seems the sky’s the limit and major movie stardom awaits. A charming love letter to Hollywood’s silent era by writer/director Michel Hazanavicius.
’visually ravishing, heart-warming and utterly beguiling’
‘This witty and moving homage to the silent movie era is one of the most purely enjoyable movies in years’




