Actors: Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, Jude Law , Ray Winstone , Christopher Lee , Emily Mortimer , Richard Griffiths , Helen McCrory , Frances De La Tour , Michael Stuhlbarg , Kevin Eldon , Gulliver McGrath , Shaun Aylward , Emil Lager
Director: Martin Scorsese
Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mechanical man) that doesn’t work without a special key which Hugo needs to find to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets with a shopkeeper, George Melies, who works in the train station and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and he discovers it unlocks some memories the old man has buried inside regarding his past.

Martin Scorsese is nothing if he isn’t consistent. This was nothing like anything he’s done before. Beautifully styled and perfectly constructed. Such a great cast as well. Loved this film!
So I’ve been thinking about this film a lot and although the style and pace was very un-scorsese this was actually totally Scorsese… a true celebration of film… and a beautiful account of the life of Georges Méliès, one of the fathers of cinema.