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Summary The movie tells of a silent film star (Dujardin) whose career is cut short by the advent of sound.
Actor Jean Dujardin won this years best actor award at the Cannes film festival for playing a man who hardly says a word, but not because his character couldnt speak. In fact, he says quite a lot. Dujardin stars in The Artist, a silent movie made more than 80 years after those films gave way to talkies, and the movie has Hollywood buzzing with Oscar talk. Directed by Frenchman Michel Hazanavicius, it tells of a silent film star (Dujardin) whose career is cut short by the advent of sound.
