Silent art

Rating: 9/10 (11 March 2012)

This is almost perfect. From the smiles, the teeth, the hair-grease, the fox-terrier to the moves. The pastiche of pastiches maybe.
The movie business was certainly changed when the talkies came. There were victims as the male hero here. He goes from being The Star to complete misery. And this girl goes from nothing to stardom.
It's told in a classic silent movie way, but no doubt, it's made in 2011. The director smiles together with us. After all, we have more than 80 years of other kinds of movies in the baggage. Which makes this much easier to like. And we do listen to the simple story, although we can't hear.