Modern Times
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29th | 21:30
Roman Agora | 6 Epaminonda & Dioskouron str., Athens
Director: Charles Chaplin
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford, Chester Conklin
Runtime: 87’
Year of Production: 1936
Courageous satire of the industrial firestorm against the background of the massive financial and stock market crash in 1929, “Modern Times” remains, through its humor and bitter assertions, a thoroughly modern film. The heavy industrialisation that transforms the person to a “production lane” and the image of the hero being trapped between the gears of the “system” created, after all, an insightful and condensed visual illustration for everything that actually happened very quickly.
Faithful to silent cinema, but so eloquent, Chaplin leaves his alter ego “speechless” against the onslaught of technology and the desperation of unemployment. Through comedic ingenuity and the key political look, he signs with the Tramp’s last appearance one of the most enduring, “all weather” film masterpieces of timeless value. Panos Gkenas
Screening accompanied by live electronic music from the composer and sound artist Jeph Vanger