Tonight with Friends: This movie, made 13 years ago, achieved an unprecedented success in the history of cinema

1927 in Hollywood. A true silent film star, George Valentine has many successes and new projects under his belt. Peppy Miller, one of her biggest fans, takes her first steps on set as an extra.

Their two destinies intersect and intertwine when one fine day, Valentine’s producer shows him a reel of a film like no other: on the images on the screen, for the first time in the history of cinema, the actors start talking!

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A masterful tribute to cinema

The most awarded French film of all time, notably awarded the Interpretation Prize at Cannes for Jean Dujardin, 6 Césars and 5 Oscars, The Artist is the culmination of a completely insane bet.

Michel Hazanavicius, who is already experienced in making homages to cinema, as he signed “America’s Class” and the two fun first parts of OSS 117. This time, it’s another exercise in style – much more ambitious that the French filmmaker decides to confront. In 2011, he will make a completely silent feature film.

An original and inventive film

Filled with love for the seventh art in each of its scenes, crafted in the tradition of the time, The Artist is a true gem that took the world by surprise when it was released. Full of ingenious ideas and skillful production discoveries, it offers its viewers – in addition to time travel and a brilliant tribute – a product of pure cinema.

With memorable sequences (such as the meeting of George and Pepi on the set, or the jacket that the young actress hugs like a lover), it can boast of being the first French feature film. and the first silent feature to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.

If you haven’t seen The Artist before, have a Paramount+ subscription, and are looking for a totally otherworldly adventure tonight, then you know which movie to turn to.

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