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22 January 2025 Lyon (France)
Chaplin with a smile
Orchestre National de Lyon conducted by Frank Strobel - Auditorium National de Lyon, Grande salle
Program Info: Around the ambitious score of Modern Times and its emblematic song Smile, the Europäische FilmPhilharmonie has built a film concert organized in sequences, like an opera, to exalt the images and music of Charlie Chaplin with the Orchester national de Lyon and the faithful Frank Strobel.
“You are instinctively a musician and a dancer” : the compliment paid by the severe Claude Debussy to the young Charlie Chaplin (20 years old) remained for the American filmmaker one of his most precious memories. Chaplin's cinema is rhythm, the Tramp's victories and defeats are choreographed with the precision of a ballet. By adorning his films with his own music, Chaplin made them total works of art. His most beautiful scores will resonate with extracts from great classics like The Kid , The Gold Rush or The Dictator but also unpublished ones like How to Make Films (1918) and The Freak (unfinished, around 1974), or rare photos from the filming of City Lights . Charlot himself will sing his most emblematic songs on screen, in particular those from Modern Times : Titine , a work by Léo Daniderff, and Smile , a jewel by his own hand, which gives its title to this show designed as a big smile .
Programme Extras from the films of Charles Chaplin City Lights, The Gold Rush, The Kid, The Emigrant, The Circus, A Dog's Life, The Dictator, Payday, Tramp and the Iron Mask, How to Make Movies, The Fires of the ramp, A day of pleasure, An idyll in the fields, Charlot and the Count, Charlot takes a cure, A king in New York, The Freak, The Pilgrim Music by Charles Chaplin, Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner… Musical arrangements by Timothy Brock and Stefan Behrisch Creative Director: Fernando Carmena (EFPI)
A production of the Europäische FilmPhilharmonie – EFPI with permission from Roy Export SAS and Bourne Co. Music Publishers.
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