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.
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.
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Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
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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.
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TIME Magazine,
2 Apr 2013
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A moving and entertaining work, executed with high finesse by a master cineast.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
2 Apr 2013
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A Woman of Paris is a serious, sincere effort, with a bang story subtlety of idea-expression.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
2 Apr 2013
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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.