CANNES, France (AP) — It took a French filmmaker to bring Hollywood's golden age back to glorious life.
"The Artist," director Michel Hazanavicius' effervescent homage to the silent cinema, has charmed moviegoers at the Cannes Film Festival and looks set to do the same to audiences around the world.
The 1920s-set story of George Valentin, a leading man whose career is sunk by the coming of the talkies, and his relationship with rising starlet Peppy Miller, it's both a playful take on silent film style and a faithful recreation of it — shot in black-and-white and wordless save for one brief scene.
Chosen to compete at Cannes just days before the festival opened, "The …
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