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Chaplin et les temps modernes, la voie du silence

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This documentary tells the story of the creation of Charlie Chaplin's film Modern Times, at a time when silent cinema was giving way to talkies.

Faced with audience expectations and the challenges of the Great Depression, Chaplin chose to keep the Tramp silent and invented a hybrid film in which only the voices of the powerful are heard, transforming silence, humor, and poetry into instruments of criticism and universal resistance.

Première nord-américaine

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Gregory Monro

Gregory Monro developed a passion for cinema at an early age. Louis de Funès, whom he has admired since childhood, inspired his vocation. A graduate of the École Supérieure de Réalisation et d’Audiovisuel, he continued his training with Jack Waltzer at the Actor’s Studio in Paris and New York. His short films, including Rose or the Mute Liars (2013), Choose or Lose (2000) and Behind (2005), have been selected for numerous festivals. In 2010, he published the only biography in French, Calamity Jane: Mémoires de l'Ouest, with Hoëbeke. 

After a highly acclaimed first documentary on Louis de Funès (2012, ARTE), he directed the docu-fiction Calamity Jane, légende de l'Ouest in 2014, again for ARTE. He continued his work on the great figures of burlesque with the documentary Jerry Lewis, clown rebelle (ARTE, 2016), which was widely acclaimed by critics, and the icons of American cinema James Stewart-Robert Mitchum, les deux visages de l'Amérique (OCS, 2017). 

He is best known today for his documentaries on iconic figures in cinema and popular culture, which have earned him numerous nominations and awards at various festivals (Tribeca, Deauville, Karlovy Vary, etc.), including an Emmy Award for Kubrick by Kubrick.

Biographical notes provided by the film production team 

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