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La vita è un charleston

Titolo originale: So This Is Paris
  • 1926
  • Passed
  • 1h
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Monte Blue and Lilyan Tashman in La vita è un charleston (1926)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaGeorgette lives in Paris with her unexciting, effeminate husband, Maurice. Suzanne lives across the street, spending her time reading romance novels, while dreaming of someone more exciting ... Leggi tuttoGeorgette lives in Paris with her unexciting, effeminate husband, Maurice. Suzanne lives across the street, spending her time reading romance novels, while dreaming of someone more exciting than her own lackluster spouse, Paul. Both women happen across the other's husband, and th... Leggi tuttoGeorgette lives in Paris with her unexciting, effeminate husband, Maurice. Suzanne lives across the street, spending her time reading romance novels, while dreaming of someone more exciting than her own lackluster spouse, Paul. Both women happen across the other's husband, and they begin their dream affairs. Four people, each cheating on their spouse, none of them awa... Leggi tutto

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    • Ernst Lubitsch
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Henri Meilhac
    • Ludovic Halévy
    • Hanns Kräly
  • Star
    • Monte Blue
    • Patsy Ruth Miller
    • George Beranger
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
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      • Ernst Lubitsch
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Henri Meilhac
      • Ludovic Halévy
      • Hanns Kräly
    • Star
      • Monte Blue
      • Patsy Ruth Miller
      • George Beranger
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    Monte Blue
    Monte Blue
    • Dr. Paul Giraud
    Patsy Ruth Miller
    Patsy Ruth Miller
    • Suzanne…
    George Beranger
    George Beranger
    • Maurice Lallé
    • (as Andre Beranger)
    Lilyan Tashman
    Lilyan Tashman
    • Georgette…
    Max Barwyn
    Max Barwyn
    • The Detective
    • (as Max Barwin)
    Sidney D'Albrook
    Sidney D'Albrook
    • French Police Officer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Dot Farley
    Dot Farley
    • Madame Moreau
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy
    • Lalle's Maid
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    Dan Mason
    Dan Mason
    • Rehearsal Pianist
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    Curtis Mosby
    • Band leader
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    Charlie Wellman
    • Announcer holding microphone
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      • Ernst Lubitsch
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Henri Meilhac
      • Ludovic Halévy
      • Hanns Kräly
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    Kalaman

    Another Lubitsch silent masterpiece

    "So This is Paris" is nothing short of perfection, an absolute joy from start to finish. I saw it for the first time very recently and I was overawed by it. Without a doubt, it ranks as one of the great Lubitsch's finest silent films, up there with "Die Puppe", "The Oyster Princess", "Rosita", "The Marriage Circle", "Lady Winderemere's Fan" "The Student Prince In Old Heidelberg" and "Eternal Love". All the familiar Lubitsch touches and themes are here: gaiety, enchantment, naughtiness, cynicism, extramarital affairs, manage a trois, etc. The standout moment is the Charleston sequence at a Parisian ball, where people are dancing and jumping. Lubitsch uses multiple camera angles and superimposition to create a feeling of joy and excitement.
    9morrisonhimself

    Marvelously animated actors wonderfully directed in a script that steals from "Die Fledermaus"

    Ernst Lubitsch cannot be over-praised. One of his classics is a silent version of "Lady Windermere's Fan," by that iconic wordsmith, Oscar Wilde.

    Lubitsch knew how to use a camera to tell a story, and "So This Is Paris" illustrates -- if you'll pardon the expression -- that facet of his talent perfectly.

    But he also had four of the most expressive actors available, especially Lilyan Tashman, who certainly should be better known now, even if nearly a hundred years later.

    She was lovely, yes, but what a talented actress, so animated and full of facial and bodily gestures to get her point across.

    She lit up the screen, but her character's husband, played by George Beranger, listed here as Andre Beranger, who had a long and busy career, including as director, was not totally in her shadow.

    Beranger needed to stand up straighter and hold his shoulders back, but he was obviously in good shape, and even looked as if he lifted weights. It's nice to know he kept busy for so many years since he was talented as well as good looking.

    Another good-looking actor was Monte Blue, who eventually accumulated nearly 300 credits, working nearly to the last years of his life, to the credit of Hollywood, which -- sad to say -- so often forgot its pioneers.

    The fourth star, and star she was, is Patsy Ruth Miller. Probably her most famous film is "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," with Lon Chaney, but she went on to play in about four score movies, making a praised appearance in her last role as the title character in "Mother," 1978.

    When "So This Is Paris" was presented on Turner Classic Movies, 9 May 2021, it was a surprise to me, being totally unfamiliar with it. Apparently it is a refurbished film with a new score, and I hope it plays often, so you can see it.

    The script, by the way, steals quite a bit from Strauss's "Die Fledermaus," and I don't know how many others, including critics and reviewers of 1926 as well as audience members of today, realize the source.

    Never mind, even if it is plagiarized, "So This Is Paris" is so beautifully performed and directed, we will overlook the theft and just enjoy.
    8AlsExGal

    A great slice of roaring 20s life...

    ... but other than the names of the characters, I see nothing about this film that would indicate anything particularly Parisian about it.

    A doctor's wife, Suzanne Giraud (Patsy Ruth Miller) , laps up romance novels about sheiks. Across the way, the apartment of the Lalles, who are professional dancers who dress in Middle Eastern attire, is visible via the window. Through a misunderstanding, Suzanne thinks the man living there has exposed himself to her, and demands her husband (Monte Blue as Dr. Girard) go over there and "get satisfaction" by caning him. It turns out the man's wife is an old flame of Dr. Giraud, Georgette (Lilyan Tashman), and the two begin an emotional affair. Meanwhile, Mr. Lalle, who never even encounters Dr. Giraud, goes to the Giraud apartment to return the doctor's cane, and becomes enamored of Suzanne. She does not return the sentiment only because Mr. Lalle is not her idea of a romantic sheik.

    Suzanne is the only one not cheating or attempting to cheat on anybody, but she does have the knowledge - eventually - of the behavior of everybody else. And if Mr. Lalle had been more Valentino and less librarian, she probably would have been having a rendezvous too.

    This is just a very light enjoyable film that is a great showcase for the fashions and dance styles of the time. The best scene in the movie is the Artists' Ball with a rowdy band and a rowdier Charleston. It was highlighted in the documentary series "Silent Hollywood" as an example of silent film not having any problems with musical numbers. Warner Brothers recently restored it, and it looks terrific, but I think the music that was used, particularly at the Artists' Ball, was not nearly as good as what was used in Silent Hollywood.

    I'd recommend it as a good example of that Lubitsch touch in the silent era. It also showcases Lilyan Tashman as being as good in silents as she was in sound films, her natural mischief coming through.
    8springfieldrental

    First Choreographed Dance Sequence

    It must feel nice to be wanted in a highly-competitive professional field. German director Ernst Lubitsch, after arriving in America to handle Mary Pickford's 1923 "Rosita," was immediately offered a lucrative three-year, six picture deal with Warner Brothers. He took the offer, nearly fulfilling his contract with the studio for four pictures before making the sophisticated comedy July 1826, "So This Is Paris."

    Much to the chagrin of the director, studio co-owner Jack Warner was always butting in on the set where Lubitsch held command. The veteran director, used to having independence in his production and little to no supervision from corporate higher-ups, resented such intrusions. He had one more picture to make to complete the Warner contract, but he wanted out. Before "So This Is Paris," the director begged to buy out his contract, to no avail. Jack and Ernst decided to cut the cord and not to extend his contract, much to the delight with Paramount and MGM, who were drooling over getting the innovative director.

    Too bad Jack didn't wait a few more weeks when the box office returns came out. "So This Is Paris" did well in the theaters. One sequence in the film especially had viewers and critics buzzing. The story, based on the 1872 play 'Le Reviellon,' by Henri Melhac and Ludovic Halevy, involves two couples who link up with each other spouses without the others knowing about the hanky panky. When the husband and the other wife go to the Artists' Ball (his excuse is he has to serve a three-day jail sentence for speeding), Lubitsch produces what some sources claim is the first choreographed dance scene in a silent movie. The dance number is The Charleston, one of the most popular songs in the Roaring 20s. The New York Times reviewer was astounded by the five-minute sequence, writing the director's "tour de force is an extraordinarily brilliant conception of an eye full of a Charleston contest, with vibrant kaleidoscopic changes from feet and figures to the omnipotent saxophones. The comedy in this film had, up to that time, kept the audience in constant explosions of laughter, but the startling dissolving scenic effects and varied "shots" elicited a hearty round of applause."

    The role of one of the wives, Suzanne, who falls for the half-naked husband across the courtyard after reading the lustful novel 'The Sheik' is played by Patsy Ruth Miller. Viewers of 1923's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" will recognize her as Esmeralda. The other wife, Georgette, who was previously a long-time girlfriend of Suzanne's husband and is his dance partner of The Charleston number, was played by none other than Lilyan Tashman. In real life, the actress and her husband, Edmund Lowe, hosted lavish weekly parties at their Beverly Hills home. Their invites were one of the most sought after prizes for the many elite Hollywood-connected.

    An observant eye will also spot one of movie's more popular future stars. Twenty-year old Myrna Loy, in her 10th film in bit parts, is in a brief scene as Georgette's maid.
    7Cineanalyst

    Kaleidoscopic Jazz-Age Comedy of Infidelity and Masquerade

    "So This is Paris" is another delightful comedy by Ernst Lubitsch and which features a concert with Charleston dancing that's a quintessential jazz-age cinematic sequence. Once again, the director returns to the themes of marital flirtations with infidelity and the dramatic irony of the spectator knowing more than do the characters, who fall prey to a series of comical misconceptions based on partial views and information, lies and masquerade. Such elements occupied much of his German oeuvre, as well as being prevalent in his more sophisticated romantic comedies in Hollywood beginning with "The Marriage Circle" (1925). While "So This is Paris" lacks the nuanced and subtle acting and craft of that predecessor, it makes up for it, at least in part, with some zany action, including a considerable amount of camera trick effects and even a hint of Freudian homoeroticism involving a cane.

    Based on a German operetta, "Die Fledermaus," which in turn was based on a French farce, "La Réveillon," Lubitsch had already adapted a version of the stage story in one of his early German comedies, "The Merry Jail" (1917), a film that is fairly indicative of the type of broad humor the director employed during his early career. The Parisian setting here is inconsequential to the narrative, but Paris was usefully associated with sexual promiscuity, so this film's title was a convenient advertisement of the subject matter, as well as surely allowing Lubitsch and company to portray adultery without drawing the ire of censors, which it presumably would've had it been set too close to home, say, in Middle America, or, too honestly, in Hollywood (which was already having enough problems from associations with deviancy in the minds of moralists).

    Meanwhile, the hint of homosexuality between the two husbands, the doctor and the actor, and the phallic symbolism of the walking stick would've presumably largely escaped notice. For much of the picture, the actor possesses the doctor's cane, wagging it, as he goes to visit the doctor's wife, Suzanne, while her husband is away--although, little does he know, the doctor is away visiting his dancer wife--the two men oblivious to each other's attempts to cuckold one another. Having already complimented the actor on his shirtless physique in a sheik costume in the fashion of Rudolph Valentino, and having misinterpreted the actor's complement of Suzanne's profile as alluding to that of his own, the doctor admires himself in a mirror. He also has a vexing dream where his lost cane pokes him in the face and forces its way down his throat, as Freudian film theorists delight. Similarly, the actor, during one of his attempts to woo Suzanne, literally deflowers her vase, tossing the stems at her.

    As in prior films, especially "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1925), Lubitsch gets a lot of play from characters being mislead by what they see through windows; in this case, from the fact that the doctor and Suzanne see the neighboring couple from across the street this way. Point-of-view shots are also effectively used later, in addition to superimpositions, including Kaleidoscopic effects, to represent drunkenness. There's also masquerade and mistaken identities: the actor dressed as a sheik, oblivious to his attracting the desire of Suzanne and the jealousy of the doctor (who initially puts a thermometer in her mouth and diagnoses her as too hot); the dancer, in a setup similar to a scene in "The Marriage Circle" and its remake "One Hour with You" (1932), inventing an imaginary illness as a pretext to bring the doctor away from home; the jail mixup; and Suzanne even wearing a mask to trick her husband into an affair with his own wife. One gag that reverses this general dramatic irony, however, is the tirade of insults between the doctor and a policeman, with the detail of the remarks being left to the imagination or for the amusement of lip readers.

    Yet, the most remarkable sequence here has to be the Artists Ball. It's framed by Suzanne listening to the orchestra from the event over the radio, with the announcements from it appearing on the screen as overlaying text. The Ball itself is unlike the rest of what is a rather intimate and small-scale production, with a large crowd of Charleston dancers and large ballroom. Although the scale is right, it's surely not quite the kind of scene that earned Lubitsch the title of "the Griffith of Europe," although it's somewhat reminiscent of a dance scene in his German film, "The Oyster Princess" (1919), as well as anticipating his later musicals. As the jazz band plays and the flappers gyrate, the sequence features a series of dissolving images, superimpositions, prominent displays of dancing legs, twirling lights and the first of the film's multiple-exposure Kaleidoscopic effects. Apparently, Lubitsch and cinematographer John J. Mescall were having a ball on this production, exploring the limits of trick effects as old as the days of Georges Méliès, repurposed for the Roaring Twenties. There's even a shrinking effect via superimposition to reflect the metaphor of the doctor's smallness and emasculation in a later scene.

    It's unfortunate that this film has yet to receive wider distribution. I would love to see a quality print, as the copy I viewed had a washed-out look. It's bad enough that most silent films are considered lost, including such Lubitsch classics as "Kiss Me Again" (1925) and the Best-Picture nominee "The Patriot" (1928); the ones that remain, such as "So This is Paris," or "Rosita" (1923) and "Three Women" (1924), deserve to be released from the vaults. The Artists Ball scene, however, is featured on the DVD "Light Rhythms: Music and Abstraction," as part of the "Unseen Cinema" series.

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      Some of the phrases the motorcycle policeman wrote in his notebook include: "Lousy boob, nincompoop, boot idiot, nut fool sap, rummy son of a gun".
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      When Maurice throws eight flowers at Suzanne, they land around her feet, as she stands in front of the chair. However, when Dr. Giraud is brought home from the ball, and he sits in the same chair, the flowers are in a somewhat more concentrated area. Then, after Suzanne has berated her husband, the camera cuts back to the doctor, who is still seated, and he is able to pick up all the flowers that are now in a very small area, directly at the doctor's feet.
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      Dr. Paul Giraud: After seeing how wonderful you looked at the window - I came over to tell you how wonderful you looked at the window.

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