Please be silent, a sign implores the crew working behind the screen of a lavish movie theater in 1927.
But the mandate is something of an in-joke, as the performers in The Artist cant help but be silent, considering they are components in a silent film.
This much-praised effort by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius (nominated in several categories for
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