film details
Hugo
2hr 06mins
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Sir Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helen McCrory, Christopher Lee, Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Ray Winstone, Jude Law
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
The plot: Twelve-year-old Hugo Cabret is raised by his father, who works at a museum and has a passion for cinema and mechanical devices. The old man dies, leaving behind an intricate automaton, and Hugo is forced to live secretly in the station with his hard-drinking Uncle Claude, who maintains the clocks. When the bottle claims Claude's life, Hugo embarks on a journey of self-discovery with Isabelle, the bookish goddaughter of toy shop owner Papa Georges.
what the others say
Daily Telegraph
"Scorsese films the action with immense brio, his cameras swooping and dashing along platforms and tracks, ladders and walkways, snaking round the clock's intricate gears."
Guardian
"Scorsese has created an exquisite jewel box of a movie, polished and honed to glittering, diamond-hard brilliance."
Salon.com
"I have seen the future of 3-D moviemaking, and it belongs to Martin Scorsese, unlikely as that may sound."
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