it was made by the makers of notes on blindness. which i absolutely loved. if you are a chaplin aficionado, there may not be a whole lot of new stuff in here, but what there is is a very, very well—told story of somebody who cannot be tied down to one version. the essential thing is, when he designed a custom, it was big shoes, baggy trousers, tightjacket where big head, small hack, deliberate contradictions. the thing you get from this documentary is it is a contradictory character. there is the light side and the dark side. there is stuff about chaplin's personal life, which has horrified people. i thought the documentary walked a very, very good line, being intriguing and involving. never turning its head away from the darker stuff. but really approaching a very, very difficult subject in two hours. in two hours, you cannot capture