The Marriage Circle
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch
USA, 1924, Silent, 85mins, DCP
Cast: Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost
In his second Hollywood film, Ernst Lubitsch adapts Lothar Schmidt’s play Only a Dream into a wickedly funny and progressive comedy of manners. A neglected and pathologically unfaithful wife sets her sights on seducing her best friend’s new husband. Her professor husband hires a private detective to investigate her, and the results prove chaotically witty. Inspired by Chaplin’s A Woman of Paris (1923), this merry-go-round of marital misunderstandings maneuvered through jealousy, infidelity and sexuality see his inventive comic sensibility and artfullyconstructed direction elevate to new heights. Lubitsch would go on to remake the film in 1932 with George Cukor, as the talkie One Hour with You.
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Cancelled 2022-01-09 (Sun)
16:45Cancelled 2022-02-05 (Sat)
20:40
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HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
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Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction