Edward
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Quite. I despair for the future of your human species, I really do.
No doubt the DVD release will offer colorized, dubbed, and pan-and-scan versions.
Well I 'liked it so much' I'm going back again to see it 'before' it leaves the BIG SCREEN
As far as some thoughts of it being 'slow in parts,' it is a European Movie and possibly this serves to highlight the 'transatlantic' differences and cultural conditioning of what we expect from films (as well as other things in life).
Europeans are more content at watching things unfold and savouring the different aspects of things. Possibly 'in today's modern age' our North American cousins are now more conditioned to expecting things to happen 'immediately' and 'now' without the subtlety of calculating plotlines and artistry that characterises many European movies (such as British to a degree, and certainly Spanish and French, with plenty of good measured films coming out of the former Eastern Bloc).
A few of my American chums have said to me in the past, "We American's can be very impatient!" Well you've got to be slowly-slowly catchee monkey folks , to paraphrase Kipling
So 'maybe' this movie was a dish more suitable to the European palate.[huh]
If you get a chance, check out OSS 117: Cairo. Its the same two leads as in The Artist. A spoof of 1960's french spy films. Really well done. That's the film that forced me ... FORCED ME! ... to fall head over heels for Bérénice Bejo