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Hugo (2011)

Adventure | 126 minutes
3,45 2.141 votes

Genre: Adventure / Drama

Duration: 126 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz and Ben Kingsley

IMDb score: 7,5 (342.927)

Releasedate: 22 November 2011

Hugo plot

"One of the most legendary directors of our time takes you on an extraordinary adventure."

Paris, 1930. Hugo Cabret is a 12-year-old orphan who lives in the walls of a busy train station in Paris. Since his uncle disappeared without a trace, he has secretly taken care of the station clocks. Then he comes into contact with a strange girl and a bitter old man who runs the toy store in the station. Suddenly, Hugo's hidden life and the precious secret he keeps are in jeopardy.

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tbouwh

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Actually, the first shot alone is worth gold. When Oscar winner Robert Bridge Richardson's camera reaches the Paris station, Hugo's dreamy tone is set. This is a grand and melancholic film about remembering and looking ahead. About people who are in danger of being forgotten, or who just have that one shortcoming that makes them unwanted or unseen. Above all, however, Hugo is a heartwarming ode to the medium of film.

Leave it to Scorsese to create a classic memoir that interweaves Mélies, Keaton, Lang, Newmeyer/Taylor and Hitchcock. The robot out Metropolis (1927), the limping leg out Rear Window (1954), the clock scene from Safety Last! (1923) and of course Kingsley's memorable role as the first directing dreamcatcher.

The cinematography is brilliant, the cast excels. It's nice to see Butterfield and Moretz at work here young; for both it also applies that I find them even better here than in the majority of their later projects. Of course it can be said that the story does not excel in originality, but the embedding of film-historical elements gives Hugo that little bit extra. It draws the cinephile Scorsese, and at the same time myself; I just love these kinds of movies a little faster.

More than 4*

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Beautiful atmospheric images and indeed .... fairytale-like. In short... a relaxing experience!

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mrklm

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In the early 1930s, Hugo Cabret [Asa Butterfield] spies on people at a train station in Paris from the clocks that his father [Jude Law] maintains. He is particularly interested in the toy store owner [Ben Kingsley] and his granddaughter Isabelle [Chloë Grace Moretz], but has to go to great lengths to avoid the watchful station inspector [Sacha Baron Cohen]. Hugo and Isabelle become friends and together they try to discover how to repair the 'automaton' Hugo's father was working on. The key may well lie with Isabelle's grandfather. In their search for the answer, the two friends make a startling discovery about a toy salesman that will change their lives forever. Scorsese's most family-friendly film to date is also a heartfelt declaration of love to the medium and a filmmaker Scorsese will no doubt have identified with. The opening shot is top-notch and foreshadows what turns out to be a technical triumph. Won Oscars® for Cinematography, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Special Effects and Art Direction and was nominated in 6 other categories. And hopefully a new (film) world will open up for the viewers. Believe me: it's worth stepping back into that world afterwards.

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