Cluny Brown
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch
USA, 1946, English, 100mins, DCP
Cast: Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford
Lubitsch’s final film (1948’s That Lady in Ermine was released posthumously, completed by Otto Preminger) is an endlessly witty and scathing indictment of British high society, on the eve of World War II. The always delightful Jennifer Jones plays the eponymous plumber’s niece-turned-parlour maid, who meets Charles Boyer’s prominent Czechoslovakian writer at a grand British countryside estate. The irrepressible heroine and the eccentric exile who is hiding from the Nazis form an unlikely alliance, and their burgeoning romance defies the household’s – and the country’s – long-standing social protocols.
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Cancelled 2022-01-30 (Sun)
20:50Cancelled 2022-03-13 (Sun)
17:15
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
The Metroplex
Festival Grand Cinema
the sky
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
MOViE MOViE
CINE FAN ONLINE
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
M+ Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
The Grand Cinema
Broadway Hollywood
Cine Moko
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction