A beautiful woman's nights
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A beautiful woman's nights |
| Original title | A woman of Paris |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1923 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Charles Chaplin |
| script | Charles Chaplin |
| production | Charles Chaplin |
| music | Charles Chaplin (1976) |
| camera | Roland Totheroh |
| cut |
Monta Bell , Charles Chaplin |
| occupation | |
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The nights of a beautiful woman (German alternative title: A woman in Paris ) is an American film by Charles Chaplin from 1923 .
action
Marie St. Clair is a young woman who lives in a French provincial town. She loves Jean Millet, who helps her to break away from her authoritarian father. When she comes back home, her father denies her entry. Marie then tries to get accommodation with Jean and his parents, but Jean’s parents also refuse her. The young couple decides to escape the village and their parents' rejection and to build a life together in Paris . Marie expects her lover at the station at night to take the night train to Paris. But the beloved does not appear because his father suddenly died. Marie goes to Paris alone.
After a year in Paris, Marie leads a carefree life that is financed by her rich friend Pierre Revel. Finally, Jean also makes it to Paris on his own. He is a painter and lives as an artist in the Latin Quarter . Jean continues to take care of his widowed mother. By chance, Marie and Jean meet again. Love is kindled again. Jean proposes to Marie. However, he denied this plan to his mother and Marie found out about it. She rejects him. Jean is bitterly saddened by this and tries to convince Marie of the honesty of his feelings towards her, but she doesn't even receive him. Jean then takes his own life and his mother blames Marie for it. She decides to shoot Marie. However, when she realizes the great grief Marie is in, she lets go of it and reconciles with her. From then on, Marie takes care of Jean's mother.
They both start a new life and look after orphans in the rural province. One day, when Pierre Revel and a friend passed this village in the car, the friend asked Pierre what had become of Marie St. Clair. Pierre shrugs his shoulders while a hay wagon with Marie and an orphan drives past the car in the opposite direction.
background
The Nights of a Beautiful Woman is Charles Chaplin's first film for Studio United Artists, which he founded in 1919 with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford . The shooting of this film began on November 22, 1922 and dragged on for seven months. The film was edited by Chaplin's dramaturgical assistants Monta Bell and Chaplin himself, and production was completed on September 29, 1923. The world premiere took place on October 1, 1923 at the Criterion Theater in Hollywood .
Chaplin had hired four assistants for this production. A. Edward Sutherland worked as an assistant director, Monta Bell as a dramaturgical assistant and film editor . He hired Jean de Limur and Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast to research the realistic French scenery . All four assistants later became film directors themselves.
The film was enthusiastically received by critics shortly after its premiere in Hollywood and the New York premiere, but subsequently fell through with the cinema audiences. The audience had expected a comedic film with Charlie Chaplin from him and not a melodrama, where Chaplin only appears in a short sequence (as a porter) at the beginning of the film. In Europe, too, the film was not accepted by the public and made box office losses. Chaplin, disappointed, took the film out of distribution and banned all showing until 1976. The film was only shown again with music composed by Chaplin on a sound track.
Reviews
“Sensitively staged melodrama; Because of its unusually subtle image design for the time it was created and the restrained play of the actors, it is still a worth seeing psychological drama today. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Robinson: Chaplin. His life, his art . Diogenes, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-257-22571-7 .
Web links
- The A Woman in the Internet Movie Database (English)