SIFF Movie Club: Midnight (35mm)
May 3, 2027
Stranded in Paris and penniless, American showgirl Eve Peabody is drawn into a scheme by millionaire Georges Flammarion to impersonate a Hungarian countess in order to deflect the attention of the handsome philanderer Jacques Picot from Georges' wife, Helene. But when Eve is pursued by a poor taxicab driver, can she stop herself from falling in love with him. Presented in 35mm.
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Monday, May 3, 2027
Screwball comedy doesn’t get any more effortlessly elegant and gleefully irreverent than this roulette wheel of romantic deception, gleaming with cunning wit and Continental élan. A couture-clad Claudette Colbert is divine as a penniless American chorus girl who crashes Parisian high society by posing as a wealthy Hungarian baroness—but both a scheming nobleman (John Barrymore) and a smitten taxi driver (Don Ameche) are soon on to her game. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett’s sophisticated script—a typically subversive blend of fairy-tale escapism and caustic social observation—and the pitch-perfect direction of master craftsman Mitchell Leisen yield a topsy-turvy Cinderella story with a cynical bite. — Criterion
- Director: Mitchell Leisen
- Principal Cast: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore
- Country: USA
- Year: 1939
- Running Time: 94 min.
- Producer: Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett
- Language: English