A triumph of French fantasy
Reviewed this week: Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese. Nationwide, cert PG. Rating: 4/5. Another Earth, directed by Mike Cahill. Selected cinemas, cert 12A. Rating: 3/5.
Reviewed: Hugo
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Nationwide, cert PG
**Rating:** 4/5
Growing up in the New York borough of Queens in the late 1940s, Martin Scorsese was a sickly child, often bed-bound by asthma. He couldn't play in the streets, so his parents began to bring him to the cinema, where he immersed himself in the fantastical worlds created by Howard Hawks and Michael Powell; brightly-lit places where nobody ...
