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15 March 2024 Lyon (France)
Ciné-concert Chaplin - City Lights
Orchestre National de Lyon conducted by Timothy Brock - Auditorium-Orchestre National de Lyon, Grande Salle
Program Info: Charles Chaplin - City Lights City Lights] USA, 1931, B&W, sound / with Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers
The Orchestra National de Lyon accompanies Chaplin's masterpiece live, which made even Albert Einstein cry.
A vagrant falls in love with a young blind girl. At the same time, he meets an eccentric millionaire whom he saves from suicide… Chaplin's monument film is introduced by the encounter, which has become legendary, between the vagabond and the young blind man. In this scene, the filmmaker, at the height of his art and his success, demonstrates his incredible talent to offer laughter and emotion to the spectators in a universal body gesture. In the midst of the talkies boom, Chaplin challenges those who think it will spell the end of his career. After thirty months of filming, 25,000 people will take to the streets to try to enter the Los Angeles premiere, including Albert Einstein. Charlie Chaplin says: “ During the last scene, I saw Einstein wipe his eyes, new proof that scholars are incurable sentimentalists. Increasing the magical power of Chaplin's images, the Orchester National de Lyon will accompany them live to the director's own music.
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