Martin Scorsese Wins Plaudits For 3D Flick 'Hugo'
Martin Scorsese has been praised for his 3D movie 'Hugo', with one reviewer describing the director as ''getting in touch with the innocence of his inner child'' through the film.
Martin Scorsese has been praised for his 3D movie 'Hugo'.
The 'Departed' director has received plaudits for "getting in touch with the innocence of his inner child" with the film, which is based on Brian Selznick's novel 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret' and tells the story of a boy who lives as an orphan in the walls of a Paris railway station in the early 1930s.
Writing a piece for The Vancouver Sun, Bob Thompson describes the movie - which stars Chloe Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley - as a "nostalgic salute to cinema".
He added: "The director let the actors make their own choices when it came to line readings, but he prepared all of them for Hugo's time and place by giving them films to screen."
Ben - who worked with Martin on 'Shutter Island' - was full of praise for the way the helmer took control of 'Hugo'.
He explained: "He saturated us with movies. He gives you licence to find the lights and darks in a character."
