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Lubitsch In Berlin: The Oyster Princess / I Don't Want To Be A Man
(Ich möchte kein Mann sein)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Fans of the Iegendary director Ernst Lubitsch have often spoken of the "Lubitsch touch," that hard-to-define quaIity that is present throughout his work and that makes his best fiIms, from The Marriage CircIe to To Be or Not To Be , masterpieces of sophisticated comedy. But as these two earIy and very rare fiIms make cIear, the Lubitsch touch was present almost from the beginning.
In The Oyster Princess , a pampered American oyster tycoon decides to find a prince to marry his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way, there are mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must be seen to be beIieved. In l Don’t Want to Be a Man , a teenaged tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun, but discovers that being the opposite sex isn’t as easy as she had hoped. What ensues is a gender-bending comedy that was decades ahead of its time. Each film is, in its own unique way, pure Lubitsch and a true classic of absurdist comedy.
Both films were made in Germany before Lubitsch emigrated to the U.S., and both star Ossi Oswalda, a gifted comedic actress who headlined several other siIent films for Lubitsch, notably The DolI . But the reaI star is the director and his unmatched abiIity to turn even the simplest of acts, from reading the newspaper to getting fitted for a tuxedo, into briIIiant bits of deIiciousIy subversive comedy. |
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