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One Hour With You

  • Dir: Ernst Lubitsch

  • USA, 1932, English, 78mins, DCP

  • Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Charles Ruggles

With ‘the assistance of George Cukor’, Lubitsch delights in testing the limits of pre-Code Hollywood with this deliciously racy musical comedy about a married couple who love each other, but also cavort with other people. Chevalier is at his most effortlessly debonair as Doctor Andre Bertier, whose doting marriage to Jeanette MacDonald’s equally assertive Colette is put to the test when her shamelessly flirtatious best friend Mitzi arrives in town, and takes an instant shine to Andre. A thoroughly modern depiction of marriage, replete with rapid fire dialogue, catchy musical numbers, and frequent confessional asides addressed directly to camera, One Hour With You feels fiercely ahead of its time even 90 years on from its scandalous debut.

Academy Awards: Best Picture nomination

23/8 (Sat): Film talk with Stephanie Ng

Screening:

In-theatre Screening

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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.