Fresh
Chaplin's manner is deft and witty, but the depiction of unchecked wealth and the moral rot it breeds links this drawing-room romance to the fierce political comedies in which he stars.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Humanity is composed not of heroes and villains.
1923 · 1h 22m · TV-PG
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Charlie Chaplin
Overview
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
Director and cast
- Charlie Chaplin Director
- Edna Purviance as Marie St. Clair
- Clarence Geldart as Marie's Step-Father
- Carl Miller as Jean Millet
- Lydia Knott as Jean's Mother
- Charles K. French as Jean's Father
- Adolphe Menjou as Pierre Revel
- Betty Morrissey as Fifi
- Malvina Polo as Paulette
- Bess Flowers as Woman "Unwrapped" at Party
- Charlie Chaplin as Station Porter (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A Woman of Paris is a serious, sincere effort, with a bang story subtlety of idea-expression.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
A moving and entertaining work, executed with high finesse by a master cineast.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
For some years great groups of the illuminati have been proclaiming Charles S. Chaplin an artist. Yet our good old uncles and funny old aunts, who really knew about custard pies, demurred.
TIME Magazine
Rotten
Despite its wealth of detail and sharp observations about morality, the film remains curiously insubstantial with its refined dabbling in the elements of satire, sentiment and melodrama exploited with such panache in Chaplin's starring comedies.
Time Out
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