Capo
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Post by Capo on Jul 22, 2007 23:16:46 GMT
A Woman of Paris Charles Chaplin 1923 USA A country girl moves to Paris when her father dies, and, a year later and about to married to a middle-class gent, recognises a past love. Should we take into account the lush set-design and visual composition, this is by all means a masterpiece, a very serious one, without the presence of Chaplin's bumbling tramp, but with the presence of the commanding Edna Purviance, who shows acting chops as meaty and convincing as anything Gish did for Griffith. It fits in nicely with the masses of films made in the twenties about urbanisation and the muddling of the class divide that came with it... and, above all, women in peril, women out of their depths, women reaching for happiness but finding, in the big cities, danger and tragedy.
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