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Limelight
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Depressed over her failed dance career, Terry (Claire Bloom) attempts suicide, only to be rescued by Calvero (Charles Chaplin), an impoverished, once-famous stage clown. Together they must look to each other to find meaning and hope in their lives.
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Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Norman Lloyd, Andre Eglevsky, Melissa Hayden, Marjorie Bennett, Wheeler Dryden, Barry Bernard, ...»
Director:
Charles Chaplin
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United States
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Lawrence.com
June 13, 2015 It was Chaplin's last great film, and it showcases not just a love for the performing arts (she's a ballerina, he's a vaudevillian), but also Chaplin's effortless sentimentality.
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Empire Magazine
March 09, 2011 Elements of self parody from the master of slapstick leave you yearning for the early work that made his name. But it's worth a watch to see Chaplin and Keaton in one of few on-screen appearances together.
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TIME Magazine
August 08, 2011 Intended as a tragicomedy, if not a tearjerker, it is a two-thirds bore that comes to life in the last half-hour or so, when the old-master clown stops trying to be pathetic and reverts to his inimitable proper stuff.
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Chicago Reader
January 01, 2000 Charles Chaplin's 1952 film is overlong, visually flat, episodically constructed, and a masterpiece.
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Time Out
February 09, 2006 Few cinema artists have delved into their own lives and emotions with such ruthlessness and with such moving results.
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Under the Radar
May 21, 2015 Some have also accused Limelight of being too sentimental, but we'd argue that's part of its charm.
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Variety
March 26, 2009 Departing from most forms of Hollywood stereotype, the film has a flavor all its own in the sincere quality of the story anent the onetime great vaudemime and his rescue of a femme ballet student.
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Chicago Sun-Times
August 08, 2011 What comes through most clearly in Limelight, however, is that Chaplin had come to terms with his life.
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New York Times
March 25, 2006 Neither comedy nor tragedy altogether, it is a brilliant weaving of comic and tragic strands, eloquent, tearful and beguiling with supreme virtuosity.
TV Guide
August 08, 2011 Chaplin, as usual, is the whole show, superb in this swansong statement about his own career and the old-style entertainment he best represented.
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Film Inquiry
April 11, 2017 With Limelight, for one last, brief moment, it's like old times even as the new age begins and Chaplin relinquishes his crown to the younger generations.
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