Browning Cinema
Learning Beyond the Classics: Grand Dames
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
With Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman
Rated PG-13, 100 minutes, DCP
This Best Picture winner from 2011 has its roots like many Hollywood classics in the transition to synced-sound films during the 1920s. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit as major movie stardom awaits. The Artist tells the story of their interlinked destinies and how acting performances can translate across languages—especially when those languages are silenced.
Free for ND, SMC, HC, IU-South Bend, Ivy Tech, and High School Students.
Co-presented by the David A. Heskin and Marilou Brill Endowment for Excellence and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Event Dates
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 6:30 PM
