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INVITÉE

Carmen Chaplin

100 years of Charlot

The year 2014 marks Can you tell us about these two short films?
a major milestone in A Time for Everything is really a visual poem.
the history of cinema. It’s a meditation on the nature of time and
100 years ago, the the cyclical nature of life. I’m very close to
world was first intro- my mother, Patricia Betaudier Chaplin, and
duced to the charac- when I gave birth to my daughter, Uma, my
ter of “Charlot”, dearest wish was to be the kind of mother to
played by your her that Patricia has been to me. This sense
grandfather, Charlie of appreciation and wonder was my inspira-
Chaplin. This little tion for the film.
tramp and his tragic-
comic adventures, A Time for Everything is the result of a colla-
immortalised by Chaplin, has amused boration with Swiss watchmakers, Jaeger-
audiences for over a century. Charlot, a veri- LeCoultre. When my grandfather, Charlie
table icon of popular culture, is being Chaplin, moved to Switzerland in 1963, the
honoured this year around the world, most canton of Vaud presented him with a Jaeger-
notably in New York at an event organised
by Jaeger-LeCoultre in April in tribute to
Charlie Chaplin. As his proud grand-
daughter, your involvement included the
screening of two short films, A Time For
Everything and The Innovators, which you
appear in, and which you both produced
and directed in his memory.

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