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What Owen said: ''The Artist may be the ultimate clever curio. It's a black-and-white silent film, made in a lovingly exact imitation of the primitive technical style — and elemental emotional sincerity — of a 1920s title-card melodrama. Written and directed by the French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius (though the movie is in English and set in Hollywood), The Artist is delightfully old-fashioned, but it's also poppingly contemporary, with a puckish spark of self-awareness.'' A-
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