THE ARTIST -- 9

Jean Dujardin has become the first male actor to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, and Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival.  He won a bunch of other stuff too (does anyone care that the Dallas-Ft.Worth Film Reviewers Guild gave him an award?) and every single nomination and accolade was richly deserved.  Not only did he flawlessly portray a character, he did it in the style of a silent film star, which I think must be like cooking a meal in full SCUBA gear or preparing a report for your boss using only toothpicks and bits of used chewing gum - achievable but much much harder.  M. Dujardin did it and made it look easy.

The rest of the cast, the filming, the music, the costuming, the sets - everything was also perfectly wonderful.  Berenice Bejo looked really pretty.   She was one of the few who didn't quite manage to fit seamlessly into the silent movie acting style but she was playing against Jean Dujardin and that's a lot of perfection to stand next to. Also she also had to be in compliance with The First Rule Of Period Costuming (or Movies) which is "Make the leading lady hot. Ignore every bit of the 200 hours of historical costuming research you just did and MAKE  HER HOT!!"

The look of the character Peppy Miller might have been modeled after the very famous Clara Bow.  Her clothing, however, is oddly light and I'm pretty sure you could pick most of it up at H&M in a few weeks.

Identical to Clara Bow except for the lack of extremely frizzy hair and 30 pounds.

While Ms Bow is pretty, she isn't the kind of pretty audiences today want to look at.  

She also appears to have a infant arm growing out of her chest.

But, I digress.  The film is excellent and I recommend it to everyone.