The Merry Widow
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch
USA, 1934, English, 99mins, 35mm
Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton
Bursting with song and sizzling with Lubitsch’s signature saucy dialogues, this visually ravishing adaptation of Franz Lehár’s operetta is widely regarded as Lubitsch’s best musical, but often unfairly neglected in his oeuvre. Set in a small fictitious European kingdom, a dashing captain is dispatched by the king to woo a wealthy young widow, so as to keep her fortune on home turf. But as both parties are revealed to be proudly promiscuous, tying the knot proves no easy task. Controversial scenes, removed under the Production Code, were retrieved in this full version.
Academy Awards: Best Art Direction
29/1(Sat): Film talk with Stephanie Ng
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Cancelled 2022-01-29 (Sat)
20:50Cancelled 2022-02-13 (Sun)
18:10
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
M+ Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
K11 Art House
Broadway Hollywood
Hong Kong Film Archive
Festival Grand Cinema
The Grand Cinema
Cine Moko
MOViE MOViE
The Metroplex
the sky
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Arts Centre Shouson Theatre
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
The HKFYG Jockey Club Media 21
CINE FAN ONLINE
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Meet the audience
Post-screening discussion with the director
Post-screening talk
Assigned seating
Full House