The Artist: Review By SpaceCowboy

The Artist is a black and white silent movie set in the late 1920s and continuing into the 1930s about two actors and how the arrival of sound in motion pictures impacts their silent movie careers. This is undeniably one of the most brilliant films in recent years. It's charming, witty, funny, shocking, emotional, and a delight from start to end. If you've never seen a silent film before, this is the perfect one to start with. It not only homages the genre, but embraces it and reminds us of a lost palette that still holds up after 80 years of absence. The Artist's most endearing quality is how anyone of any age can enjoy this film no matter what genres peak their interest. I had the pleasure of spending it with an audience full of demographics that was just as alive as the images on the silver screen. The film's only fault in my opinion, which may be the film's greatest strength, is how it takes the aged art of early cinema and cleans it up with minimal scratching, bigger scaled shots, occasional CGI, and the introduction of sound (which may in fact be the film's highest point considering the film's plot). It doesn't matter if you're into stoner comedies or somber dramadies, The Artist is definitely one that can't be missed.