Friday, November 20, 2009

Chicago Public Radio

"Involving, entertaining, moving, and humorous... Once upon a time, young French filmmakers made their exhilarated versions of the Hollywood musicals they loved. Now, a young American filmmaker offers his take on the French versions of these films. The profusion of talent on display in this work -- acting, directing, scoring -- seems crowded in the confines of a 16-mm frame. Imagining what Chazelle and his collaborators might do with a larger budget inspires dreams of the millenial-generation cineastes imbuing new life into a spectrum of different genres and giving birth to new recombinations."
Click here to listen to the full review: http://www.wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=41850