Various Chicago theaters
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Dec 23, 2011 – Apr 12
Daily
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Various prices
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“This black-and-white, near-silent throwback by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius (OSS 117) delivers film-geek kicks in both form (gleefully antiquated transitions, early-cinema special effects) and content (a plot straight out of A Star Is Born). Jean Dujardin is George Valentin, a silent matinee idol swept away by the introduction of sound; his love interest, played by Bérénice Bejo, is a former extra whose career is on the upswing. Still, for all its knowing conceptualism, expect a warm and frothy crowd-pleaser. As Hazanavicius told the New Yorker, "It's language that is intellectual — images are about feelings."”
Stephen Gossett, Flavorpill
