Hugo 4K 2011

This is not a fantasy, no matter how shallow distributors present the movie. They deserve a belt for such advertising - I wonder how many viewers were waiting for the promised fantasy for all two hours, but got a dumpling with a malom? Dickensian atmosphere as much as you want, but fairy tale adventures here and did not run close. There is magic, but it is a special magic - the magic of old cinematography.

Martin Scorsese, a living classic of cinema, confesses his love for the films of another, now deceased, classic - Georges Méliès. In "The Timekeeper" Méliès is shown as a stern but unhappy old man, whose star hour is long past - his films, once captivated crowds of people, recycled for waste paper, many already do not remember who was this Méliès ... For the director hurt to tears - it's bad when your work has become useless. And only thanks to Hugo, an orphan boy, people will remember about Méliès again, and he will let a tear out of happiness....

A kind, very human movie, where there are simply no bad people - even the harsh inspector, who is always attacking Hugo, is actually an invalid who is timid to confess his love to the flower seller. The inspector is played by Sacha Baron Cohen, the great troll of cinema, but you won't see Borat here - Cohen is a very versatile actor.

My favorite Chloe Moretz played Hugo's girlfriend, introduced by him to the world of cinema. Chloe is sweet as always, and plays it well. True, the voice that she was picked up in dubbing, not too much liked.

I don't understand why to PR a kind, soulful, but still quite a chamber movie as some kind of "fantastic adventure"? The first thing teenagers will go to this notorious adventure, and then spit: "Ugh, boring, the whole movie is talking about some movie old stuff!". The movie is certainly not dynamic, but it's not boring at all. It's just not a blockbuster. A drama about cinema and its first steps, about the forgotten genius of silent cinema - but not a blockbuster, and especially not a fantasy.