“Humour is found in the small discrepancies of reality” is just one observation made here by one Charlie Chaplin.

At the time, he was the most famous man in the world, and the pressures of wearing that mantle prompted him to make an extended South Seas getaway in 1932, just after the advent of sound threatened to make his acute storytelling modes seem old-fashioned. There’s a surprising amount of great footage following his ocean voyage with brother Sydney, through Suez, to Ceylon and Singapore, and then Bali itself, where German polymath Walter Spies became their guide to a new way of seeing things. Although the doc’s somewhat academic narration doesn’t quite make the case that the Little Tramp was philosophically altered by his sojourn—as well as completely dropping Spies’s part of the story—the expert choice of relevant clips from Chaplin’s long career help make this a must-see for fans, and for the merely curious.