Chaplin et Les temps modernes, La voie du silence

Chaplin et Les temps modernes, La voie du silence is a French-language documentary that released on 23 April 2025. The film examines the circumstances and significance of Charlie Chaplin's 1936 feature Modern Times, which Chaplin made as a silent film a full decade after synchronised sound had become standard in cinema. In Modern Times, spoken dialogue is withheld from human characters entirely, with sound effects deployed as a dramaturgical tool and speech reserved for machines and broadcast apparatus. The documentary treats that formal choice as the basis for its inquiry into the film's place in cinema history.