This
exhibition worthy of a Museum of the Cinema was made possible thanks to
the family archives of Chaplin. Since its birth in London in 1889
until its dead in 1977, Charlie Chaplin, alias Charlot in France,
forged an exceptional destiny of scenario writer, actor,
type-setter. A mythical figure of the history of
the cinema's world. Here is a new glance on the
artist. A succession of 250 photographs of plates, turnings or
studio, documents, posters and newspapers of time, as well as a
selection of film extracts, make it possible to at a glance traverse
the whole of the work of the black clown. Child of misery,
Chaplin begins as travelling acrobat in a small London troop which will
make a round in the United States. Noticed by the realizer
Sennett Mark, it puts the foot in the world of the cinema and
instinctively will build the odd character of Charlot through costume,
step, mimicry. It will be necessary for him to wait to appear in
35 films before carrying out itself its first work, The Kid. Will
follow then the glorious titles so known everywhere : Gold rush,
the Dictator, etc. This exhibition has the merit to reveal us the
man behind the actor, the immense professional and especially, the
creator in all his inspiration.
