The Chattering Crow: The Artist

Saturday, February 11, 2012

The Artist

If you have avoided seeing The Artist because it's a silent film, or because you think it might be pretentious, or that it couldn't possibly be as good as all the critics say it is, then RUN DON'T WALK to your nearest cineplex and have a couple of the most pleasurable hours of your life. The characters, script, pacing, cinematography are perfect. The dog is perfect. Yes, there's a dog. The mix of humor and pathos is perfect.

I don't remember the last time I was so happy after watching a movie. I can't wait to see it again.

Go. You'll thank me.

3 comments:

SarahFebruary 12, 2012 at 5:58 PM
This is encouraging!
(I'm more conscious of my explanation points because of you.)
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heatherFebruary 13, 2012 at 7:20 AM
I will go. Maybe I will take my daughter, instead of trying to convince my husband to go. Thanks for the review, Ms. Ebert.
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Bonnie WhiteFebruary 13, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Yes I agree a must see. Do you think it will start a trend to more like this?
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You can quote me:

"The beautiful is as useful as the useful." Victor Hugo
"I don't want the damned sportsmanship award."
"Jesus glows in the dark like my pajama tops" George Plummer, age 4
"Our parents are crazy as hell." Sam Plummer, 2016
"Grandma, your hands are old." Sally Plummer, age 3.
"Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts." Wendell Berry
"Sitting is the new smoking is the new bullshit." Tom Plummer, 2014
"Never move an old tree." Dutch saying.
"I am universally offensive." Dede Plummer, 2014
"I don't want to see any movie with the word 'guys" in the title." Tom Plummer, 2013.
"Please bless Grandma. And Grandpa. That they can have a nice time. In their apartment." Louis Plummer, age 4.
“Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.” George Saunders
"Hello, my name is Tom, and I'll be your spouse this evening." Tom Plummer, 2012
Me: " Jesus knows EVERYTHING." Hank (10), "Yeah? How many fingers am I holding up?"
"In my end is my beginning." T.S. Eliot
"Nothing has prepared her for the wide, grey simplicity of sadness and for the knowledge that this is what the rest of her life will be like." Carol Shields
"My life has been a fog, but the only light, the only clarity-- has come from the simplicity of putting permanent ink on paper." Rian Plummer, age 17.
"When I die I'm leaving my body to science fiction." Steven Wright
"Does anybody need to go poopies?" Louis Plummer, age 3
"I grew up in the wide and spacious building." Charles Plummer, 2011
"Pride is a such a useless handicap." Christina Putney
"You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret" — Rainer Maria Rilke
"Don't retire; retread your tires." Lucy Jarvis
"Grandma is never boring." Mira Plummer, age 8
"Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkien
"The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want." Iyanla Vanzant
"Being in your body is a good place to be." Beatrix Ost
"I'm the world's oldest teenager." Iris Apfel, age 89