A movie set in Hollywood's silent era that is virtually wordless: a gimmick? No, a delightfully inventive comedy about a swashbuckling star (Gallic charmer Jean Dujardin) and the peppy waif (Berenice Bejo) he befriends. Think Smgin' in the Rain, but silent and in black and white. From French writer-director Michel Hazanavicius comes an effervescent treat for anyone open to sheer joy. Martin Scorsese, the movie-mad child who grew up to be both a supreme picturemaker and a diligent savior of old films, creates a fantasy autobiography in this rapturous 3-D vision of Brian Selznick's novel about an orphan boy (Asa Butterfield) befriending the great pioneer director Georges Melies (Ben Kings-ley). Hugo celebrates the birth of a popular art form through a master's brilliant application of new techniques.
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