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Exploring the Unfinished Legacy of Charlie Chaplin’s Last Planned Film, ‘The Freak’

Charlie Chaplin’s last planned film was more than a brainchild, but probably too much even for the great comedian

In «The Freak», a bird woman becomes a projection surface for human longings. An exhibition in Chaplin’s World shows how far the project had progressed.

A showpiece of the exhibition: the impressive feather costume that Sarapha was to wear.

Bild: Laurent Gillieron / KEYSTONE

Some dreams end up as running images on the screen, admired and loved. Others remain a dream, forever unrealized and left to our imaginations. Stanley Kubrick no longer brought his gigantic Napoleon to life, Alfred Hitchcock never made the serial killer shocker «Kaleidoscope». The history of cinema is full of examples of real or supposed failure, it is defined by completed films as well as by all its projects, castles in the air, fragments.

2023-06-12 06:14:05
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