black and white boring product

Rating: 1/10 (8 December 2011)

If you really fancy silent movies from long long ago en do not mind the lack of sounds in general en lack of voices from people talking to each other and you like the thin story's from 80 years back you must see this film. If not you will probably find this movie terribly slow and non dramatic. Drama is normally (among others) built around or grounded in sounds and voices. That's why the introduction of movies with voices was such a huge step forward! The Artist is really an almost complete silent movie with storyboards (!) tot tell the story. For reasons unexplained, the spectator is brought back in history, between 1927-1935. Not by the story which is situated about 80 years ago, but by the philmographic techniques. No zoom, no sound (except some music, which is OK), black and white, storyboard, etc. Thus it is very difficult, if not impossible to connect with the characters. Characters are also cardboard and the story is very simple and flat, as in more movies about 80 years old. With a running time of 100 minutes the movie is too long or at least feels far too long. I found the movie very boring. It is certainly not the best movie from this year