I just saw the film Hugo. It was a really, really great film.

• The visuals are spectacular, especially in the AMAZING intro. Five minutes in I was thinking ‘I feel like I’ve got my moneysworth of enjoyment already’. Every frame is stunning, the gorgeous use of strong temperature-based colours was so, so beautiful. Also, so worth seeing in 3D. 
• The casting is delightful, and the characters delightfully French in aesthetic.
• A large amount of characters with differing amounts of significance held together plots and sideplots really, really well.
• It was full to the brim of intertwined concepts, about time, the nature of purpose, and dare I say it, belonging. 
• The music was, as you’d expect for a film set in 1930s French, superb. 
• I would have enjoyed however, and I realise this is functionally impossible, the film being in French. Films are hugely about aesthetic for me, (most things are hugely about aesthetic for me), and for a film that did so well and creating a rich 1930s French atmosphere, hearing the smoothly rolling nuances of the French language in there would have been the icing of a delightfully vaudevillian cake.

On the whole, however, a very enjoyable film.

4 stars.

Oh, David! *hacking cough*

(Source: eveofdistraction)