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The Artist, one of the year’s most enjoyable and original films will be released by the Weinstein Company November 25, 2011
Eight years ago, I fantasized about making a silent film. Probably because the great mythical directors I admire most all come from silent cinema… Hitchcock, Lang, Ford, Lubitsch, Murnau, Billy Wilder (as screenwriter)…
The film is inspired by the true story of Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo, the public prosecutors who, together with a young and untested legal team, put Argentina’s military on trial. In 1985, they dared to prosecute the architects of Argentina’s bloody “dirty war.”
It is set amid a protracted drought caused by climate change in the Italian capital where the Tiber has dried up.
The first-ever gay rom-com from major studio; the main cast is made up of LGBTQ actors.
Fuqua usually attended the first training session of the day in order to be present as the character organically took shape. “Antoine decided that he would come with me on the physical journey,” recalls Jake Gyllenhaal.
