Hollywood,
1927: Silent movie star George Valentin is famous and wanted by his fans. He
meets Peppy Miller, a young dancer, and propels her to the top of the movie
industry. But as the sound enters the Hollywood, will George Valentin stand up
to the challenge or surrender?
I will
definitely remember the year 2011 as the year of extreme nostalgia about the
old movies. It seems to me that suddenly that feeling overwhelmed all the major
producers, and as the result we saw so many films heralding how good the times
were. The suit was started with Drive, the movie that initiates a time travel
into 1980s movie production with all the main attributes in place: pounding
soundtrack, violence and L.A. Then there was Hugo, in which Martin Scorsese
took us back to the very beginning of the film production and has shown the
fate of one of the pioneers of the industry, Georges Méliès. This time, the
nostalgic Michel Hazanavicius take us to 1927, the era of silent black-and-white movies and
booming movie industry.
