Focusing on a much lesser known aspect of World War II, The Monuments Men is an exceptional film about the attempt to preserve hundreds of years of culture in one of history’s darkest times.
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Do you think a premise of the Nazis’ rise to power and the Georg Valentin committing suicide sounds like an appealing plot to The Artist? After second thought, writer and director Michel Hazanavicius didn’t either. Hazanavicius and actors Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo go in depth about film decisoins that were made behind the scenes.