Really Good Film

Rating: 8/10 (16 December 2018)

I've seen The Artist a couple times now, and it held up both as a new and returning viewer. The use of silence to tell the story of a silent film artist was both clever and very effective- especially when it was inverted, such as in the dream sequence. This movie was definitely entertaining, and I enjoyed the nods to various movie tropes from the era with both the plot and the characters. The music was well suited to what was happening onscreen, and added a lot to the film. It really encapsulated what the characters were feeling, and helped make up for the lack of dialogue or ambient noise. However, the film occasionally dragged, especially with the lack of colour or non-musical sound that might normally have piqued the audience's interest. I think this film really works as an homage to the era that it depicts, although were it not doing so it might not hold up quite so well.