The 100th anniversary of 'The Gold Rush' opens Cannes Classics, a section dedicated to the great history of cinema
The pre-opening of the 78th edition of the French kermesse with the screening of one of Charlie Chaplin's greatest masterpieces
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The first day of the Cannes Film Festival 2025 was lit up by one of the great masterpieces of film history: Charlie Chaplin's 'The Gold Rush' blew out 100 candles this year and the French kermesse screened its restoration in an exciting pre-opening of the event.
After Jean Eustache's "La maman et la putain", Jacques Rivette's "L'amour fou" and Abel Gance's "Napoleon", which had inaugurated the Cannes Classics section in the past three years, this edition presented a version of "La febbre dell'oro" restored in 4K by the Cineteca di Bologna thanks to the work of the laboratory L'immagine Ritrovata.
Perhaps it is unnecessary to recall the greatness of a film capable of mixing drama and comedy like few others, in which the Tramp finds himself braving the rigours of the great cold of the north, in a gold rush where he abandons the usual urban settings of his more famous earlier works.
'The Gold Rush' is his third feature film (before that, he had made 'The Kid' and 'Woman of Paris') and it is worth mentioning that Chaplin had revisited his film in 1942, adding an orchestral track and replacing the intertitles with an audio commentary with his own voice, cutting the intertitles and changing the ending of the previous version.
The restoration work started with the 1925 film and it was, as always, a wonderful experience to see memorable sequences again, such as the famous 'sandwich dance' or the gag in which the little house with the protagonist and a colleague inside threatens to slowly slide into the abyss.
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