“Paul Lay’s piano strikes the perfect balance between technical mastery and atmospheric creation… both instructive and poetic.” Mathieu Pfeffer

PAUL LAY

A regular guest at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris and numerous festivals combining music and film, Paul Lay brings a unique musical perspective to these cinematic masterpieces. Through improvisation and original compositions, he alternates between the style of a silent-film ragtime accompanist and passages highlighting contrasts, lyricism, and the poetic power of the images.

BUSTER KEATON – Sherlock Jr.

A cinema projectionist, hopelessly in love with a cashier, dreams of one day becoming a detective like Sherlock Holmes on the screen. One day, as he falls asleep at work, a fantastical story unfolds in which he imagines himself as the greatest detective in the world.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN – The Emigrant

Charlie Chaplin travels on a ship with other immigrants bound for New York. During the journey, he meets a young woman caring for her sick mother. Upon arriving in New York, he has neither money nor work. Finding a coin on the street, he decides to go to a restaurant, where he encounters the woman from the ship, now grief-stricken — and we understand that her mother has passed away…