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Sign In. Play trailer Drama Family Fantasy. Director Martin Scorsese. Top credits Director Martin Scorsese. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Hugo: Trailer 1. Clip Best Picture. Adapted Screenplay. Costume Design. Original Score. Visual Effects. Sound Editing. Sound Mixing. Photos Top cast Edit. Emily Mortimer Lisette as Lisette. Kevin Eldon Policeman as Policeman. Martin Scorsese. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in s 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.

Hugo needs to find the key to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets George Melies, a shopkeeper, 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.

One of the most legendary directors of our time takes you on an extraordinary adventure. Drama Family Fantasy Mystery. Did you know Edit. Trivia Martin Scorsese and Sir Christopher Lee were very good friends, but up until , had never worked together.

Lee's response when he was asked by Scorsese to appear in Hugo was: "It's about time! However, this is not unusual for fictionalized stories even when there are characters based on real historical figures. The character is "fictional" in the sense that the things that character does and says within the film are not necessarily claimed to be actual actions and words the real person did.

Quotes Hugo Cabret : Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do Crazy credits There is only one opening credit, the film's title, which does not appear until nearly 15 minutes into the film.

Labisse, Specialiste de Livres. My character is sort of a guardian angel, and I help open the world to these children through literature. It was interesting for me because I met a lot of people who are involved in the book world. We also had some made in plaster, and I put a lot of marble busts and sculptures and framed prints in the shop…it was meant to be as a library feeling There is a constant interplay with Monsieur Frick [Richard Griffiths] who runs the newsstand nearby.

And with the sweet flower seller, Lisette [Emily Mortimer], whose flower stall was filled with an abundance of fresh flowers Lo Schiavo had trucked in everyday, often from Provence. He immediately approved, so we had it reproduced very large. The flower-barrow I researched and then had made. As time passes, jars full of gears, clockworks, and mechanical bits and pieces appear, lined up on a makeshift table and shelves, and we see a bed of sorts tucked into the lantern-lit corner.

Alone, Hugo cares for all of the clocks in the station and works to repair his beloved automaton. For the huge main station clocks, one facing into the station, one overlooking the city of Paris, Lo Schaivo chose large teardrop-shaped bulbs. All the instruments, all the clocks, all the parts, all the collections! Another fascinating world!

So I worked quite madly to collect all this stuff, with many trips from London to Paris and back. But then the war came. Lo Schiavo shopped Paris for this set…everything in the apartment was French and period…and she aged some objects to seem gently worn, since they had lost all their money years before. She used subtle stripes and more stripes, from wallpaper to draperies and bed coverings, plus heavily spindled chairs, all as if they were barring out the world.

There was even the symbolic bird cage…very French and tasteful, of course. The whole building was made of glass. This is where they are made. Lo Schiavo says doing the replication was a delight… she particularly loved gathering the fabrics for this homage to both the man and the art.

For this scene, Lo Schiavo had the iconic image of the rocket hitting the eye of the moon enlarged to fill the huge curtains of the French Film Academy stage. Film and Television Film Decor. Spotlight Inside The Set. Decorators in the News. Educational Opportunities. Resources Find a Set Decorator. About Our Story.