The characters are interesting and witty and the script zings.
– I was awful ugly when I was young, sir. Somebody better looking than me… she could’ve had him easy enough. Where would she find anybody, sir? And in the second place, if she’d wanted Jules: Untrue to me, sir? Oh, I think it’s most unlikely. I merely had her tailed.Īlfred: I give you my solemn word, August: if I don’t regain control of myself in a few minutes, concert or no concert, I’ll take this candelabrum and beat that walnut you use for a head into a nutburger, I believe they’re called!Īlfred: what would you think if your wife had been untrue to you? You’re tearing it.There’s nothing to be so upset about. Kindly release my scarf.Īlfred: You dare to inform me you had vulgar footpads in snap-brim fedoras…sluicing after my beautiful wife?Īugust: I believe it’s called ” sleuthing.” Kindly let go of my shirt. You said, ” Keep an eye on my wife for me.”Īlfred: Well, supposing I did, how could you do it from Palm Beach?Īlfred: With detectives! You stuffed moron!Īugust: Control yourself, Alfred. And if she is, take her to the movies, you and Barbara.Īugust: But you didn’t say that. But if I did say keep an eye on my wife for me, I meant see if she’s lonely some evening. I don’t recollect saying anything to you at the airport except possibly good-bye. Nevertheless, I did not fail you.Īlfred: Again, something’s happening to my back hair. Well, you see Alfred, being a little nearsighted, I couldn’t keep an eye on her from Palm Beach. Like those sequences in infomercials where everything goes wrong? It’s like that but writ large, hilarious! I watched it with Jo and the two of us where laughing so hard we were tearing up.īechdel test: Barbara and Daphne talk to each other a lot, but I rather think it’s always about either August or Alfred.Īugust: You keep repeating ” keep an eye on your wife,” as if it had some special meaning. The sequence where Alfred is trying to set up his perfect murder is just… incredible. I feel for Daphne more than him, but it’s the kind of film where people are generally likable and sweet. Alfred’s sympathetic if a bit extreme in his reactions. The gorgeous long takes of speech and action help as well.ĭoes it make me love the people? Absolutely. It’s a stunningly beautiful film, and the black and white seems to emphasise that beauty.
The costuming and sets are very beautiful as well, reminiscent of all the high class inner spaces of All About Eve. “For me no one handles Handel like you handle Handel”
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Honestly? It reminded me of a Shakespeare comedy, with lots of misunderstandings, miscommunication, overly elaborate plots and long metaphors (especially the scene where Alfred describes a movie about a dog to Daphne but it’s all about how he knows she cheated on him.) There’s some gorgeous long interchanges, some snappy one liners and some laugh out loud moments.
What I really enjoyed about the film was the acting and the script. This is one of those old ‘movie as play on screen’ productions, with lots of long scenes of dialogue between two people in one room. The batshit premise of the film is quite at home with current comedy movie scripts, in that respect there’s very little has changed. Watching it, I can see some art to the direction, some weirdness about the plot, the structure of how he imagines what he will do about his supposedly cheating wife. Once again a romantic comedy which is regarded as a valid piece of cinema due to its age? This is another of those movies I’d never heard of, but was pleased to find it’s a comedy.
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