Limelight
Dir: Charles Chaplin
USA, 1952, 137 minmins, DCP
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Buster Keaton
Persecuted in America for his leftist sympathies, Chaplin turned nostalgically to the milieu of Victorian London’s music halls where he began his career for this late masterpiece about the relationship between an aging comedian who has lost his audience and a young ballerina he rescues from suicide. Bazin praised Limelight for the ambiguity with which Chaplin presented the relationship between art and life, illusion and reality, not least in the film’s suggestions of autobiography, culminating in a legendary sketch featuring Chaplin for the first and only time together with Buster Keaton as a has-been comedy duo.
1973 Academy Awards: Best Original Score
15/11 (Sun): Film talk with Bryan Chang.
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
K11 Art House
Chinese Subtitles
Post-screening talk
Full House
Remarks
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