A Woman of Paris (1923)

Original title

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

Directed by

A. Edward Sutherland, Charlie Chaplin

Genre

drama film, silent film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 198 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman leaves her small town for Paris after a tragedy. She becomes the mistress of a wealthy man. Later she reunites with her former lover and faces consequences.

melodramaticrestrainedunsettlingsomberromanticbittersweetvisually starkquietly tense

What happens

A Woman of Paris (also known as A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate) is a 1923 silent drama film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. It stars Edna Purviance as the title character, along with Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles K. French and Adolphe Menjou. A United Artists production, the film was an atypical dramatic work for Chaplin. A Woman of Paris was Chaplin's first dedicated attempt at "straight dramatic subject matter" and his only silent film in which he does not appear as a main actor; his next film was the highly acclaimed comedy The Gold Rush (1925). Years later in 1952, he made Limelight which has been both described as "comedy-drama" and a "drama". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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