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Title: THE ARTIST
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Year: 2011
Reviewed: October 10, 2012
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Birthday Cake-Second Highest Rating |
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So. I saw The Artist. It is a somewhat witty film and cute. But I couldn't help thinking to myself. Meh. Is this it? Is this the best that Hollywood can do? Furthermore, is this Oscar material?
I think not.
The movie The Artist is clever, but that's where it ends. Furthermore, I am of the opinion that clever only gets you so far. There is no dialogue really (except for a few choice words at the end of act 3), which lends to its inherent cleverness, and the acting is portrayed through melodramatic pantomime. The movie felt like a masturbatory celebration of Hollywood, which probably explains why it won the Oscar in the first place. The Artist, the movie, IS Hollywood. At the end of the day, The Artist, is filmed well, directed well, shot well, and I guess one could say acted well (however, I really have an issue with superfluous smiling, vaudevillian-type, over-dramatic acting), but it feels very flat to me, with very little dialogue, a paper-thin story, and to cap it off the addition of it being black and white.
I give The Artist- Hollywood's ostensible "good-job" slap on the back- a BIRTHDAY CAKE review.
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