Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
LIMELIGHT
Synopsis
Once a famous vaudeville star, Calvero is now a washed-up old man. After saving a neighbor from suicide, he nurtures the young ballerina with paralyzed legs back to health, and urges her to return to the stage.
Synopsis
Once a famous vaudeville star, Calvero is now a washed-up old man. After saving a neighbor from suicide, he nurtures the young ballerina with paralyzed legs back to health, and urges her to return to the stage.
Our take
Made during the height of McCarthyism and the Red Scare in the U.S., Limelight was Chaplin’s reaction to his own decreasing popularity. A return to the memories of his youth spent in London music halls, it depicts with sweet and nostalgic details the life of an entertainer, as well as fame’s blows.