Day 90: The Artist

Directed By- Michel Hazanavicius 


Written By- Michel Hazanavicius

Starring- Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo

Critics Review- " "The Artist" should appeal to anyone willing to take a chance."-Elizabeth Weitzman "New York Daily News"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 98% Audience- 90%

Out a possible 5 stars- 4 1/2 stars

My Review-

The first silent film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 83 years. However I still need to watch a few more films to see if it should have won this years Best Picture, now I am not talking down the film I enjoyed it very much it was good, and some scenes really stood out for me than others in this film. This is the second film to be on my daily movie that is a silent film, I will admit at first I did not want to watch it because in my opinion I am very picky about the silent films that I watch and will some times most likely enjoy since they were the first time of films made. What made this film work for me is that it dealt with the end of the silent film era and the start of the "talkies". Even though it is a silent film, the acting works really well in the film, because it is all about facial expressions to tell us what is going on with actors. Once again like in most of his movies John Goodman was my favorite in the scenes that he was in, I was surprised to see some of the actors that I saw in the movie. I applaud this movie for taking the risk at making a silent film, and then it winning Best Picture is a huge achievement. The main reason I believe the movie did so well was because of the acting by Dujardin he just had a presence on screen that instantly made you like him, like some of the silent film starts from back in their time. At times for me the movie felt just a tad bit boring, then the next scene would pick back up and kept going. One of my favorite scenes in the film is the dream that Dujardin's character has about hearing sound for the very first time, I thought that scene was done very well and had hoped they would have done a little more with sound and not until the very end, but it would not have worked like it did if there was sound only twice in the film like there was. This was a good movie, but I need to watch a few others to give my opinion on what movie should have won best picture this year, I just have a few more to watch.