From Ebert and Roeper to Rotten Tomatoes, from Rolling Stone to the Academy Awards, ‘The Artist’ is making headlines and movie buffs all over are a- buzz with this unique, new silent film that is nothing but a class act from start to finish.

“We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces.” That’s Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, the over-the-hill silent film star in the 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard.

‘The Artist’ is a new black and white silent movie that doesn’t need dialogue either.  It has faces and they belong to George Valentin, a silent movie superstar and Peppy Miller, a spunky ingénue. Their story takes place in the early days of Hollywood before the advent of talking pictures, when someone like Valentin could grin with such a winning combination of self- confidence, self-deprecation and self-awareness, that dialogue was redundant.  A combination of delightful humour and charm.

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See The Artist on Monday, February 6, at 7 p.m. at the Vogue Theatre in Fernie.

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