It’s a crazy bet. And such a beautiful story as cinema regularly leaves us. In 2011, Michel Hazanavicius released the black-and-white silent film The Artist, dedicated to the music of Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejot, Ug the Beloved Dog, and the Seventh Art of Music by Ludovic Bourse. In the midst of the 3D boom, with Queen dominating pop culture and blockbusters, the term crazy bet is not an exaggeration…
Originally launched on the Fantômas adaptation project, The Old Style Tour, Michel Hazanavicius And its producer Thomas Langman eventually chooses a poignant and cinephilic melodrama that tells the story of a meeting between the big screen star George Valentine and the rising Hollywood star Peppy Miller, while the talkies are in the process of replacing the mutes. Artist born.
The feature film presented at Cannes in May 2011 was very well received there, winning the Interpretation prize. Jean Dujardin (the first of a long list) and already Oscar predictions.
A few months later, in February 2012, the film won 6 Césars (film, director, actor, sets, music, photography) before winning 5 statues at the Oscars stage a few days later (film, director, actor, costumes, music). .
In theaters, Triumph is also on a date with 3 million viewers in France and $133 million worldwide. So, a crazy bet for a great movie.
But would a great movie really be a great movie without its fake connections? Like silent classics such as Chaplin’s or Nosferatu’s masterpieces, Artist Skip some of the shooting bugs that AlloCiné’s technical experts have discovered for you.
Like that license plate that changes number, those recurring extras, those whimsical newspapers or that missing actor who, thanks to a huge anachronism, finally turns up alive!
Michelle and Michelle invite you to watch their new video. And it is heavy, very heavy!
Source: Allocine
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