https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1325 This article proposes to consider the appearances of Charlot on the circus ring as so many reflexive moments on the powers of gesticulation. Gesticulation is often considered a degraded version of gesture, to which modernity would be condemned. Or, it is a ridiculous version of it that clowns use to mock human pretensions. None of this in The Circus. The gesticulation does not testify to a failure, and moreover the movie is not interested in causes or intentions. It highlights what happens through gesticulation, the defeat of the order of the world, and what it allows: surviving the catastrophe. Numéros Charlot : le grand déserteur Readings fr lun., 13 mai 2024 15:16:59 +0200 lun., 13 mai 2024 15:33:30 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1325 0