Populaire is in cinemas today, I’m not sure I’m going to get a chance to see it this weekend but I hope I will over the next week. Going on the trailer it looks like a good couple of hours.
It’s set in 1958 and is directed by Régis Roinsard, as far as I know this is his first feature length film and stars Romain Duris, who starred with Juliette Binoche in 2008’s Paris and also Bérénice Bejo who was in The Artist.
Anyone seen it yet? What do you think?
This movie has been all over the media since Christmas and the hype around it, had made this movie out to be ‘definitely one you won’t want to miss’. The Artist, a silent movie in 2012, would it work? Maybe the hype had been built up too much.
I had been waiting to be blown away by this. The world of cinema has come a long way since Georges Méliès and The Lumiere Brothers. Surround sound and the option of 3D are commonplace, filling the senses with overloaded sound and imagery. The lack of dialogue in this film would need to be compensated through film action and direction.
The story revolves around George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) an actor who fears the arrival of the ‘Talkies’ and his possible popularity slide. His story is crossed with that of Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), a dancer/actress, Star in the making and her rise as the ‘Talkies’ take hold. (more…)