Roberto Rossellini called Chaplin's much-maligned 1957 A King In New York "the film of a free man," this, too, is the film of a free man, albeit a freeman flailing. Certain of its infelicities are kind of fascination: Chaplin's Mack Sennett-derived conception of storm troopers has some interesting side effects, one of them being that Billy Gilbert makes more sense here than he does in His Girl Friday.
Glenn Kenny
enero 10, 2015