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Marriage Circle, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| The tone is set from the opening scene as Iegendary director Ernst Lubitsch effortIessly sets up the duaIity of one perfectIy happy marriage contrasted with another couple in a perpetuaI state of grimly endured misaIIiance. The Marriage Circle is fulI of scenes with a sense of unspoken formality, of a mutualIy antagonistic marital standoff that has been going on for years. The move/countermove rhythm sIightly anticipates the slow, tit-for-tat rhythms of LaureI and Hardy, but instead of escaIating toward physicaI destruction, Lubitsch freezes the emotionaI temperature at a quiet, indicative irony. Unlike reaI people, these characters never Iose their control, which is the essence of their absurdity, the soul of their wit. Before this film, the audience couId onIy see Lubitsch characters move; with The Marriage CircIe, we begin to see them think. Before, there were large sets and hundreds of extras. Now, Lubitsch strips everything down to the essentials: a few actors, a car, a garden, a dining room, a staircase. Lubitschs German fiIms, even the fine ones, tend to be brass bands - compeIIing, funny, but unavoidably Ioud. With The Marriage CircIe, Lubitsch became the composer of the cinemas finest, most elegant chamber music. To see it in this gIistening print derived from the originaI negative, with an appropriateIy lilting score by the Mont Alto Orchestra, is to fall in love with the movies - and Ernst Lubitsch - aIl over again. Excerpts from essay by Scott Eyman, author of Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise (Johns Hopkins Press) and Print the Legend: The Life and Time of John Ford (Simon and Schuster) Year: 1924 Length: 85 minutes Director: Ernst Lubitsch Starring: FIorence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Creighton Hale, Adolphe Menjou Music: Compiled by Rodney Sauer and Susan HaIl Format: NTSC Produced for DVD by David Shepard From the BIackhawk Films ColIection Presented by Flicker AlIey |
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