From Page to Screen

Hugo what can I say?! After reading and loving the book, being spellbound by its story and the unique way that the action is carried through the story by the illustrations, I was excited and cautious when I heard there was to be a movie.



For those who love a book, there is always a worry that a film will not only not measure up, but often overlay faces and personalities on our favourite characters, different from the way we have seen them in our mind's eye.



But no worries here! It's beautifully done, the few liberties taken by Scorsese take nothing away from the story. Brilliant performances by Ben Kingsley, Helen McCory, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Asa Butterfield as Hugo, the young boy who lives in the clock workings of a 1930's Paris train station, restores an old man's faded dreams and finds a family.



If you haven't read the book - do so. If you haven't seen the movie, do that also. An over worked word - magical - but in both these cases, very true.