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The Artist (2011)

★ 7.4 · 3,499 ratings on TMDB

A breath of fresh vintage air.

The Artist poster★ 7.4

Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

DirectorMichel Hazanavicius
CastBeth Grant, Bérénice Bejo, Ed Lauter, Elizabeth Tulloch, James Cromwell, Jean Dujardin
GenresComedy, Drama, Romance
The emergence reading

The Artist keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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