Midnight (Liesen, 1939): Garden Cinema, 6pm
This is part of the Garden Cinema's Screwball Comedy season. Full details here.Time Out review:
An enchanting comedy which starts with Claudette Colbert, as an American chorine
on the make, stranded in Paris in a gold lamé evening gown (what else?).
She is befriended on the one hand by a poor taxi-driver who is really a
Russian count (Don Ameche), and on the other by a wealthy socialite
(John Barrymore) who 'introduces' her to society so that she can oblige by
luring a gigolo away from his wife. Uncanny coincidental parallels with La Règle du Jeu
abound, and although the film echoes Renoir's bark more than his bite,
it has a superbly malicious script by Brackett and Wilder, gorgeous sets
and camerawork, and a matchless cast. All in all, probably Mitchell Leisen's
best film.
Tom Milne
Here and above is the trailer.
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