A love letter to 1930s Hollywood

Rating: 8/10 (25 February 2019)

A French comedy-drama; This story is a tribute to the magic of silent cinema. A joyous film with delightful performances and a beautiful visual style, bringing back the glamour and glitz of old Hollywood. It is extremely well cast with Dean Dujardin in Academy Award winning form as an older silent film star and a rising young actress as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the "talkies". The costume design was also recognized by the Academy, and rightly so. The stage and set design is also impeccable with some surprising cinematography in street scenes that brilliantly captures 1930s Los Angeles.
The film used the soundtrack from "Vertigo" which caused consternation in some quarters of the film industry, but this is not a film pupporting to be unaffected.