Category: Gallery, Headline, Still

The surprise hit of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival (official listing) has been this black & white silent film, The Artist. A full fledged silent feature is a tricky proposition for modern audiences but this one based on the Cannes screening seems to be an audience friendly crowd pleaser! The Artist is from filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius who also did the OSS 117 films which were great fun 60′s Eurospy & James Bond spoofs (also featuring same leading man in Jean Dujardin).

Reaction & News to The Artist from the 2011 Cannes Film Festival:
::: Trailer
::: 2011 Cannes Film Festival Press Conference (Video)
::: 2011 Cannes Film Festival Photocall
::: 2011 Cannes Film Festival Interview with Michel Hazanavicius (Video)
::: 2011 Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet Arrival
::: Eric Kohn Review at indieWIRE
::: Peter Howell Review at Toronto Star
::: Stephanie Zacharek Review at Movieline
::: Peter Debruge Review at Variety
::: Todd McCarthy Review at The Hollywood Reporter
::: Cannes 2011: Can ‘The Artist’ cross over from art-house novelty to mainstream hit? – LA Times
::: Ssh, No Talking: Silent Movie Charms Cannes Fest – AP
::: Cannes Film Festival: Can Harvey Weinstein take a silent movie to the Oscars? – EW
::: Silent film has tongues wagging at Cannes – AFP

 

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Synopsis:
Hollywood 1927.
George Valentin is a very successful silent movie star.
The arrival of talking pictures will mark the end of his career.
Peppy Miller, a young woman extra, becomes a major movie star.

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“The silent movie is an emotional cinema, it’s sensorial; the fact that you don’t go through a text brings you back to a basic way of telling a story that only works on the feelings you have created. It’s a fascinating way to work.”
~ Michel Hazanavicius on making The Artist
 

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Source:
Official stills from the original international release of the film.

Related:
::: Film Archive Listing – Museum of Cinema
::: IMDb Listing
 
 

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Tags: Archive: Still, Behind the Scenes, Country: France, Decade: 2010s, Film Festival: Cannes, Film Festivals: Cannes 2011, Film: The Artist (2011), Genre: Drama, Genre: Inside Hollywood, Genre: Romance, Genre: Silent Film, People: Berenice Bejo, People: Jean Dujardin, People: John Goodman, People: Michel Hazanavicius, Year: 2011

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