Bleak meditation is thoughtful — but not this year’s ‘The Artist’

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The best film released last year — it has the Oscar to prove it — was an almost-silent film in black and white made by foreigners. “The Turin Horse” has all those characteristics. But it’s unlikely to make even the modest $40 million that “The Artist” has earned stateside.

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