The old and new in a perfect balance

Rating: 9/10 (5 March 2012)

Hugo Cabret is a wonderful story about the history of cinema mainly for those ones who are not familiar to it and believe that its history began in America. Centainly an amazing tribute to french cinema from the beginning to the end.
The movie reminded me a lot of Jean Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro movies, their visuals, the importance of daily life segments, uncommon characters and the using of fantasy to tell an ordinary story. That happens maybe for the fact that Jeunet is one of the most important contemporary french directors and also clear inspired by George Meliés and his fantastic and colorful misé en scene.
Scorcese truly offers to the audience a heartfelt and inspired journey that only an experienced director would be able to give, mixing the old school cinema with what is the most modern in filming technology showing a fully emotional trajectory from the old to the new in a perfect balance.
Amazing. The movie is not only a nostalgic way back to the roots, but also what George Meliés exactly expected from cinema: an opportunity to dream again.