On Wednesday January the 7th, the very same day the Charlie Hebdo magazine slaughter occurred in Paris, this movie was released in France. A movie speaking of...Charlie Chaplin. Sad coincidence. There was another film with a lead character named Charlie, released the same day: L'AFFAIRE SK1, which I talked about last week. But speaking of this feature, it's the tale of two petty fiends who decide to steal the Charlie Chaplin's coffin in order to get a ransom. A mix up of comedy and drama. You have here awesome performances. Especially the Chaplin's butler's one. The scene where he looks at the workers getting his master's coffin from the ground, after the end of the abducting affair, this sequence is poignant at the most. Here you also have Chaplin's grand daughter playing Chaplin's daughter. Yes folks, this film is a great homage to this great actor. And to the very end. A splendid film indeed. You can think of Andrew Mc Laglen's THE ABDUCTORS, made in the late fifties, speaking of the abduction of Abraham Lincoln's corpse by a bunch of hoodlums.
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