![]() Unfolding in mid-1980s Sacramento, California, this story stars 12-year-olds Rosalind and Benjamin as first-person narrators in alternating chapters. The book, an homage to early filmmakers as dreammakers, is elegantly designed to resemble the flickering experience of silent film melodramas.Īn aspiring scientist and a budding artist become friends and help each other with dream projects. Exquisitely chosen art sequences are sometimes stopped moments, sometimes moments of intense action and emotion. Opening with cinematic immediacy, a series of drawings immerses readers in Hugo’s mysterious world. Discovering that Isabelle’s godfather is Méliès, the two resurrect his films, his reputation and assure Hugo’s future. The children are drawn together in solving the linked mysteries of the automaton and the identity of the artist, illusionist and pioneer filmmaker, Georges Méliès, long believed dead. Caught stealing small mechanical repair parts from the station’s toy shop, Hugo’s life intersects with the elderly shop owner and his goddaughter, Isabelle. Obsessed with reconstructing a broken automaton, Hugo is convinced that it will write a message from his father that will save his life. Orphaned Hugo survives secretly in a Parisian train station (circa 1930). ![]() From Selznick’s ever-generative mind comes a uniquely inventive story told in text, sequential art and period photographs and film. ![]()
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