Limelight
(Candilejas)
(USA, 1952) [B/N, 137 m.]
Género: Comedia dramática.
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: Charles Chaplin.
Argumento: Charles Chaplin.
Guión: Charles Chaplin.
Fotografía: Karl Struss.
Música: Charles Chaplin.
Producción: Charles Chaplin (no acreditado).
Productora: Celebrated Productions.
Sinopsis: Londres, 1914. A Calvero, el que fuera un día gran artista de variedades, son ya muy pocos los que le recuerdan. El genial payaso, casi un anciano, vive refugiado en el alcohol y, de vez en cuando, para subsistir, se asocia a grupos de músicos callejeros, tocado eso si, con una chistera que le sirve para ejercer la mendicidad sin perder el prestigio. Calvero salva a Teresa, una joven bailarina sin trabajo, de morir de desesperación. Aquel intento de suicidio, que Calvero ha frustrado, será el primer paso de la muchacha en una carrera ascendente.
Un payaso de edad madura salva del suicidio a una joven bailarina a la que cuida, enseñándoles todo lo que él sabe sobre el mundo del teatro, intentando que triunfe en su profesión. A él, sin embargo, le seguirán calificando de "acabado"...
Último y melancólico film americano de Chaplin, que cuenta con la aparición juntos de la pareja de cómicos más grande de la historia del cine: Chaplin y Keaton. Como nota anecdótica, ganó el Oscar a mejor la banda sonora en la ceremonia de 1973, pues el film no se estrenó en Los Angeles hasta 1972, y las normas en esa época de la Academia de Hollywood hacían un film elegible para ganar Oscars en el año de su estreno en los Estados Unidos. (FILMAFFINITY)
AMG SYNOPSIS: London, 1914. Calvero (Charles Chaplin), a once-great music hall comedian, weaves drunkenly home to his shabby flat. As he arrives home, he is suddenly sobered by a bad smell. It isn't his shoes, as he originally assumes, but the smell of gas, emanating from behind a locked door. Calvero smashes his way in, finding the unconscious Terry (Claire Bloom). Carrying the girl to his attic apartment, Calvero revives Terry, then asks why she is so determined to kill herself. The girl explains that she has always dreamed of becoming a great dancer, but her legs are paralyzed. Calvero vows to raise enough money to help the girl. He goes back on stage, where his old-fashioned act is greeted with a riot of silence. Now it is Terry's turn to encourage Calvero to go on living-and in so doing, she regains the use of her legs. Hired by the Empire theatre corps de ballet, Terry arranges for the management to hire Calvero as a supernumerary. Impresario Postant (Nigel Bruce), not recognizing the famous Calvero in clown makeup, fires him. Only after Terry pleads with Postant to give Calvero another chance does the producer relent, securing a comeback appearance for the ageing comedian and his old partner (Buster Keaton). Calvero's antics bring down the house, just like the old days, but the effort is too much for the old fellow, and he collapses backstage. As Calvero dies, he proudly watches his protegee Terry carry on the "show must go on tradition" by dancing for the crowd. Thanks to the political climate of the time, Limelight was denied a wide distribution; in fact, it didn't play Los Angeles until 1972, twenty years after its completion. At that time, Chaplin's theme music, which had gained popularity on the "hit parade," was honored with an Academy Award. While the film has moments of unmatched hilarity (especially during the fabled Chaplin-Keaton teaming towards the end), the elegiac tone of Limelight was best summed up by critic Andrew Sarris: "To imagine one's own death, one must imagine the death of the world, that world which has always dangled so helplessly from the tips of Chaplin's eloquent fingers." -- Hal Erickson
AMG REVIEW: If not his final film, this is certainly Chaplin's swan song as well as a tribute to the British musical-hall tradition from which he had sprung. At the time of its release, the director had not had a success in over a decade and had been vilified as a Communist by McCarthyite zealots whose pressure tactics would soon result in the revocation of his U.S. passport. All of this is reflected in the melancholy countenance of the aged performer Calvero, who has nightmares about playing to empty theaters and is only sporadically in command of his former comic genius. In a story reminiscent of the high-minded sentimentality of the silent era, the comedian forgets his woes by ministering to a young ballet dancer suffering from hysterical paralysis. An artist of physical rather than verbal gifts, Chaplin displays his vaunted graceful mimicry, but the script is wooden, ponderous, and studded with cringe-worthy dialogue, despite occasional flashes of wit and insight. A departure from the director's previous work in its somberness, it often evokes the sentimentality of DeSica without his accompanying realism. Yet the performance of the radiant young Claire Bloom is a wonder; that she could revive the comedian's spirits is beyond question. And in the pantomime of the music hall numbers, and especially the final musical-duo routine with former rival Buster Keaton, Chaplin shows why so many have regarded him as the medium's greatest performer. If the film as a whole may rank below the level of his best work, its moments of honest pathos and comic epiphany make it a moving farewell. -- Michael Costello
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RELEASE.TIME...: Fri Nov 26 16:58:23 2010
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