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Hugo 3D (U)
Dir: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz 127 mins, 2011, USA
Please note: this was screened in Dec 2011
"I have seen the future of 3D moviemaking, and it belongs to Martin Scorsese" - is this a sentence you would expect to see from a critic a few years ago? Well, it's happened. Scorsese has created his first 3D film, based on Brian Selznick's award-winning book, and it is a fantastical thing of beauty. Set in Paris in the 1930s, it follows Hugo (Asa Butterfield), a young orphan who teams up with Isabelle (Chloe Moretz) to solve a mystery left behind by his father - a puzzle that involves a key, a toymaker, a broken automaton and, who'd have thought it, a sneaky lesson in early film history. Quite apart from being a great family adventure, this is Scorsese's love letter to early cinema, and every frame is soaked with it. Gorgeous.
5* "This is a great director's greatest love story." Empire Magazine
4* "It's a film about making films, about losing your heart - and finding yourself - in a pitch-black movie theatre." Time Out
"A masterpiece." Time Magazine
We won't charge you extra for seeing a film in 3D at Watershed.
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