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The Artist 2011 Michel Hazanavicius
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The Artist – the silent film you need to watch

The disgruntled viewers who walked out of The Artist in Liverpool demanding a refund, claiming they were unaware it was silent and in black and white, bears testament to the huge ambition of this film: how do you convince a super technological, modernized, millennial audience that a film with no words and no colour is worth seeing? Not only does The Artist succeed in making you feel that watching it is worth your while, it centres itself around this very debate, eventually concluding in a celebratory homage to the silent era of cinema.