The Artist (2011)

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Critic Consensus: A crowd-pleasing tribute to the magic of silent cinema, The Artist is a clever, joyous film with delightful performances and visual style to spare.


Movie Info

Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. The Artist tells the story of their interlinked destinies. -- (C) Weinstein

Rating: PG-13 (for a disturbing image and a crude gesture)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Directed By:
Written By: Michel Hazanavicius
In Theaters:
On DVD: Jun 26, 2012
Box Office: $44.7M
Runtime:
The Weinstein Company - Official Site

Cast


as George Valentin

as Peppy Miller

as Al Zimmer

as Constance

as Peppy's Maid

as Peppy's Butler

as Policeman Fire

as Pawnbroker

as The Butler

as Auctioneer

as Policeman Tuxedo

as Admiring Woman

as Admiring Woman

as Set Assistant

as Peppy's Boyfriend

as Peppy's Boyfriend

as Audition Casting Ass...

as Audition Dancer

as Audition Dancer

as Napoleon

as Set Technician

as Laughing Dancer

as Laughing Dancer

as Shouting Dancer

as Journalist

as Journalist

as Director #1 (Restaur...

as Director #2

as Director #3 (Finale)

as Assistant Director (...

as Actor In "The Brunet...

as Peppy's Assistant

as Woman With Policeman

as Assistant With Newsp...

as Tennis Player

as Nurse At Peppy's Hou...

as Zimmer's Assistant

as Zimmer's Assistant

as Zimmer's Assistant

as Zimmer's Assistant

as Bartender

as Big Dancer (Restaura...

as Onlooker

as Uggy

as Soldier
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Critic Reviews for The Artist

All Critics (275) | Top Critics (53)

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.

Full Review… | February 17, 2015
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Top Critic

This is a bauble, not a jewel.

Full Review… | May 3, 2015
Philadelphia Weekly

Uplifting, heart-warming, hilarious... not necessarily words you'd expect to apply to a black and white silent French film. But The Artist is no ordinary movie.

Full Review… | February 17, 2015
Daily Mirror [UK]

Writer/director Michel Hazanavicius uses a shrewd eye for visual composition to tell an emotionally effective story never waylaid by the clever throwback gimmickry of his method.

Full Review… | February 17, 2015
MLive.com

The Artist is drunk on the history of cinema and art, and culture buffs will get giddy on it.

Full Review… | February 17, 2015
Daily Telegraph

Retro but totally modern, frivolous yet fundamentally serious, The Artist is a thing of grace and joy and a great American film -- of the sort it takes the French to make.

Full Review… | February 17, 2015
Independent on Sunday

Audience Reviews for The Artist

Not being a fan of films about filmmaking nor filming in black and white just because films of that era were in black and white, this latest artistic gimmick of filming a _silent_ black and white movie doesn't appeal to me again... but it *is* OSS-117 Jean Dujardin!

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Ross Collins

Super Reviewer

'The Artist' brings back the memories of silent movie era to the millennium era which is a different approach and the critics definitely love it.. But to tell you the truth, they're kinda a little over-rated this movie.. But the power of this movie is even it is a silent movie but they're not boring.. So overall it's a great movie and definitely critics' favorite..

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Sanjaya 丘耀文

Super Reviewer

Didn't really know what this was about for along time, saw the posters everywhere but never really took much notice, then I saw the trailer and knew I wanted to see it...mainly out of curiosity.

Freakin' awesome is all I can say, this film is 100% win from start to finish I tell no lie. Yes it is a black and white film, yes it is a SILENT film and yes it is just like those old scratchy films you've seen in documentaries from the era, so why see it you ask?

If you wanna see a homage to old 1920's films with dashing well dressed chaps, cute dames and lovely choreographed sequences harking back to the days of the Hollywood musicals then this is for you. The plot isn't too original really, the film is very much along the lines of 'Singin in the Rain' in terms of the gentle charming humour and basic story outline. Add to this a lead man who in my opinion looks very much like Gene Kelly and he dances well too!

The two leads in this film (to me) are unknown performers (unless you live in France) yet they look like Hollywood regulars and fit this film amazingly, Jean Dujardin is good looking, elegant and has good visual comedy skills whilst B�r�nice Bejo is very cute, the perfect partner, a great match to Kelly and Reynolds. There are one or two well known faces from Hollywood in the film, Goodman has a main role within the film but he doesn't really fit the bill for me, just kept thinking oh its John Goodman in black and white.

Its hard to think you could watch a silent film these days but it really is such a fresh welcome change of pace just to have a musical score, the only problem I had with the film was the lack of intertitles or text that comes up in place of sound/speech from the actors.

A great feel good movie with stunning visuals achieved using the basic technology of the time, its got plenty of charm, heart and warmth, there's something about a black and white film that is just so cozy. You simply can't help but enjoy and smile whilst watching this, younger viewers and teens beware...there are no explosions or CGI is this film (hurrah!).

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Phil Hubbs

Super Reviewer

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