Michel & Michel go black and white to unearth the false connections of the film at the 5 Oscars…
It’s a crazy bet. And a beautiful story like the cinema regularly reserves for us. In 2011, Michel Hazanavicius unveiled The Artist, a silent film in black and white, a tribute to the Seventh Art carried by Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, the adorable dog Uggy and the music of Ludovic Bource. In the midst of the 3D boom, at a time of queen pop culture and the domination of blockbusters, the term crazy bet is therefore not an exaggeration…
Initially launched on an adaptation project of Fantômas, tour “old style”, Michel Hazanavicius and its producer Thomas Langmann will finally opt for a touching and cinephile melodrama, which tells the meeting between a star of the big screen, George Valentin, and a rising Hollywood star, Peppy Miller, while talkies are in the process of supplanting the mute. The Artist was born.
Presented at Cannes in May 2011, the feature film was very well received there, with an Interpretation Prize for Jean Dujardin (the first of a long list) and, already, Oscar predictions.
A few months later, in February 2012, the film received 6 César (Film, Director, Actress, Sets, Music, Photography) before winning 5 statuettes a few days later on the Oscars stage (Film, Director, Actor, Costumes, Music ).
In theaters, the triumph is also at the rendezvous with 3 million spectators in France and 133 million dollars worldwide. A crazy bet, therefore, for a great film.
But would a great film really be a great film without its false connections? Like silent classics like the masterpieces of Chaplin or Nosferatu, The Artist missed a few blunders and filming errors, which AlloCiné’s technical specialists have unearthed for you.
Like this license plate that changes number, these repeating extras, these capricious newspapers or this disappeared actress who, thanks to a huge anachronism, finally finds herself alive!
Michel & Michel invite you to discover their new video. And it’s heavy, very very heavy!