Michel Hazanavicius

News, Reviews & Features
  • Just in case you were wondering...

    Movie News | Ali | 13th January 2012

    The Artist is still out now, and still wonderful.

  • #LFF: The Artist

    Movie Review | Ali | 19th October 2011

    The dog doesn't die. What a relief. After the relentless misery of films like Tyrannosaur and Snowtown, and with We Need To Talk About Kevin still to come, I'm just grateful a film as joyous as The Artist even exists. A lovingly shot black and white homage to silent film, Michel Hazanavicius's evocative picture echoes the classics of the genre and stretches wide over the cinematic horizon like a double rainbow (so intense, all the way across), blasting away the black clouds hanging over the London Film Festival. If it doesn't leave you with a smile plastered all over your stupid face, then you don't have a mouth, in which case, I'm sorry I said your face was stupid.