Love Me Tonight

Sporting a series of spiffy chapeaux, perched upon his head at the jauntiest of angles, Chevalier’s Parisian tailor Maurice ventures out of the city to chase down a reckless aristocrat who has failed to pay his bill. Upon arrival at the cavernous country estate, Maurice is instantly smitten by MacDonald’s young princess, but is forced to pose as a travelling baron in order to get close to her. This wondrous pre-Code musical comedy boasts a parade of dazzling highlights, from the sonorous charms of its charismatic leads, to the iconic show tunes of Rodgers and Hart, and the endlessly innovative direction of recent Armenian émigré Mamoulian, from the bravura opening on the streets of Paris to a breathless railroad finale.

17/8 (Sun): Film talk with Lau Yam