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“TROUBLE IN PARADISE IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED PRODUCER/DIRECTOR ERNST LUBITSCH’S GREATEST FILM” – FILMSITE

Made only three years after the introduction of the “talkies”, this sophisticated jewel-thief romantic comedy feels like it could have been made yesterday.

Set in Venice and Paris, it’s all evening dress, opera, jewelry, nightclubs, butlers, grand hotels and a suave, sexy triangle between two thieves and the perfume company executive they plan to rob.

Exquisitely directed by Lubitsch, there isn’t a false note in the entire film.

“[Lubitsch] could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.”

Billy Wilder

Introduced by Ivan Cerecina, Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney.

BILLY WILDER ON THE LUBITSCH TOUCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jOVRKzwURY

To read Geoff Gardner's notes on the film, click here.