Silent Cannes Favorite The Artist Gets Poster: The Golden Age of Black and White

Cannes crowd-pleaser The Artist -- a black-and-white, silent (save the musical score) film about Hollywood in the '20s -- isn't tampering with the poster that ushered in its success: The Weinstein Company is reusing the gorgeous shot that led to the movie's best actor prize for Jean Dujardin. Michel Hazanavicius's Gallic flick hits the states on Nov. 23. Can you handle the intense Clark Gable/Claudette Colbert throwback?

Ow, ow. It's been a few years since we've had a foreign-language Best Actor win (Roberto Benigni in 1999 was the last, if memory serves, though Marion Cotillard picked up a trophy in 2008 for La Vie en Rose), so I wouldn't count out Dejardin as a dark horse contender. Of course, the Best Actress race is shaping up to be a grudge match between two very formidable American veterans.

[via THR/Risky Business]