Hugo
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Martin Scorsese has always been fascinated by 3-D. He has cited the effect and impact that Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder had on him as a child but it still took the best part of 60 years to commit his own 3-D vision to celluloid. And that has now come to pass thanks to the adaptation of Brian Selznick’s 2007 illustrated novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Scorsese’s Hugo tells the story of an orphan (Asa Butterfield) who lives in a train station in 1930’s Paris who strives to find the truth behind a contraption left behind by his late father (Jude Law). It transpires that the inventor was real-life toy maker and legendary French filmmaker Georges Méliès, who was another inspiration of Scorsese’s.
Despite the stigma surrounding 3-D movies, Hugo has received reviews of the highest possible praise. The New Yorker went to town, writing “Reality, filmed illusion, and dreams are so intertwined that only an artist, playing merrily with echoes, can sort them into a scheme of delight.” Roger Ebert reckons that “Hugo is unlike any other film Martin Scorsese has ever made, and yet possibly the closest to his heart: a big-budget, family epic in 3-D, and in some ways, a mirror of his own life.” And Variety‘s summing up sounds like Hugo is a must-see movie going experience: “In attempting to make his first film for all ages, Martin Scorsese has fashioned one for the ages.”
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