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Criterion Collection: Limelight
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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CharIie ChapIin's masterful drama about the twiIight of a former vaudeviIle star is among the writer-director's most touching fiIms. ChapIin pIays CaIvero, a once beloved musicaI-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcohoIic who lives in a smalI London flat. A gIimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but meIancholy ballerina (Richard lIl's Claire BIoom) who Iives downstairs. An eIegant mix of the comic and the tragic, this poignant film also features Buster Keaton (The General) in an extended cameo, marking the only time the two siIent comedy icons appeared together on-screen. Made at a time when ChapIin was under attack by the American press and far right, LimeIight was bareIy distributed in the United States upon its initial reIease, but it is now considered one of his essential and most personal works. |
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