The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Artist, on Sunday Sept. 25, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.
The Artist
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In Brief: A great deal of the appeal of The Artist is the pure novelty of the experience. It will probably be a lot of people’s first exposure to any silent film — at least as an entire feature-length movie — and in that respect, I suspect the film’s calculations are very shrewd indeed. Making it a movie about silent movies — and their demise — makes it feel authentic (even if it’s not very), as well as fun and nonthreatening. It doesn’t demand much of the viewer to get into a vibe that itself is based on the idea that silent movies are old-fashioned stuff, and that their quaintness is part of their charm. At bottom, it’s a silent movie for — and, I can’t help but feel somewhat by — folks whose idea of silent movies comes from Singin’ in the Rain (1952).” I can’t say this is a bad movie, but it seems more and more negligible to me. This excerpt was taken from a review written by Ken Hanke and published on Feb. 19, 2013.
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| Genre: | Comedy Drama |
| Director: | Michel Hazanavicius |
| Starring: | Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller |
| Rated: | PG-13 |
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