It was probably just a matter of time before French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius broke through in the United States: His OSS 117 diptych of spy spoofs had already acquired something of an international audience, and his curiosity about Hollywood has grown alongside his reputation. But no one — least of all Hazanavicius himself — likely foresaw him breaking through with The Artist.
Which says more about our culture’s lack of vision than Hazanavicius’s own. After all, he was the one who conceived and executed an honest-to-goodness black-and-white silent film about George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a silent-era Hollywood superstar relegated to obscurity as talkies — led notably by George’s erstwhile co-star Peppy Miller (B�r�nice Bejo) — surge to the fore. The rest is history — or it will be history, anyway, if The Artist’s devotees continue mobilizing on its behalf in the awards race.
Hazanavicius just made it look easy, though. He recently talked to Movieline about the untold challenges before, during and after making his masterpiece, up to and including what’s next for the artist behind The Artist.
How are you holding up in the Artist marathon?
It’s not so easy day after day from a personal point of view, because I have kids, and they’re in Paris, and I don’t see them enough. And a lot of the time you say the same kinds of things, and there’s just one subject of discussion — your own movie. It’s not so easy. But in another way, I don’t feel I have the right to complain, because it’s a good story for the movie. And the movie goes well. So I feel like a soldier serving the movie.
A soldier for The Artist!
Yes,…
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