Freeman's review of THE ARTIST in a couple of sentences.
Remember your first plain croissant? Different in shape, color, flakey,
delicious while eating. But then when it was over it was like, ehhh is that
all there is?
No meat, no other tastes but just buttered dough, and you couldn't help
thinking, couldn't the baker have tried a little harder?
THE ARTIST = a croissant
If you want a full banquet, with astonishing sensations, thoughtful preparation
and a feast for the eyes, ears and head.
THE TREE OF LIFE
And when THE ARTIST does win Best Picture, which is likely, just watch. In
five years it will be relegated to that
"WTF were they thinking?" bone pile. Just like THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH,
ROCKY and worst of all CRASH.
my two cents BUT always great to hear from David Kusomoto on this here board.
( EDIT: The dog was GREAT though, far more appealing than the female lead.)
On Jan 26, 2012, at 6:40 PM, David Kusumoto wrote:
> Based on a rave review received privately from a fellow MoPo member, we
> rushed out to see "The Artist." Impressions (rather than an essay):
>
> * Magnificent. A "cute" story told with dazzling flair in around 90 minutes..
> * Lives up to and sometimes exceeds all of its critical hype.
> * Best directed film of 2011. (Michel Hazanavicius).
> * You would NOT know this was a French film unless you were told FIRST.
> * The two French leads, Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo (the director's true
> life wife), deserve their nominations.
> * Other actors are English or American, e.g., James Cromwell, Penelope Ann
> Miller, John Goodman, Malcolm McDowell, Missi Pyle.
> * Dazzling 21st century tools replicate old film clichés, e.g., multiple
> exposures, dissolves, twirling newspapers, etc.;
> * Aspect ratio is the original square frame used during the silent era.
> * Silent film ironically has the best adapted score of the year, heard in
> BOOMING monaural SOUND.
> * Deceptively simple story is actually charmingly intricate; a superb
> Oscar-nominated screenplay.
> * The Jack Russell Terrier steals every scene.
> * The film was shot entirely in Los Angeles.
> * Some sequences are NOT ENTIRELY silent.
> * "Put me over the top" (1 of 2): Bernard Herrmann's orchestral love theme
> from Hitchcock's "Vertigo" heard in its ENTIRETY.
> * "Put me over the top" (2 of 2): An Astaire-Rogers-style tap dance scene
> with full rich sound.
> * Superior pacing and emotion over "Hugo."
> * Writer-director Hazanavicius is only 44.
> * Superb ending.
> * If it doesn't win Best Picture, I'll be very disappointed.
> * Not sure if people under 30 will like it but I don't care. (They won't get
> the "Vertigo" music either).
>
> -d.
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