Hugo
Hugo
“ One of the most legendary directors of our time takes you on an extraordinary adventure. ”
CINEMA2011-11-22
RegionUS
Runtime126 MIN
Media TypeMovie
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“A children's adventure that becomes a love letter to film history, reconnecting machines, memory, Georges Méliès, and cinema's earliest sense of magic.”
Storyline
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks...
DIRECTOR / DirectorTOPIC
Martin Scorsese
KEYWORDS
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