Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
With Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman
Rated PG-13, 100 minutes
This winner of the 2012 Oscar for best picture winner has its roots like many Hollywood classics in the transition to synced-sound films during the 1920s. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. The Artist tells the story of their interlinked destinies and how acting performances can translate across languages&mash;especially when those languages are silenced.