CiNEMERCATOR - Ernst Lubitsch Trouble i n Paradise 1932
Filmlover,
4 cinephiles:
Merthe Voorhoeve, Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar & Elisabeth van Vliet,
each are programming 1 precious film per month. That's 4 precious films per month!
CiNEMERCATOR
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start 20:00
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Ernst Lubitsch Trouble in Paradise 1932
Lubitsch's cinema suggests that social life is a series of roles and that grace lies not in sincerity, but in awareness. Trouble in Paradise remains a masterclass about how lightness, when guided by intelligence, can become a form of critique.
Made during the brief openness of the pre-Code era, the film reflects Lubitsch’s European sensibility within the Hollywood system; it exposes bourgeois morality without attacking it openly. Wealth is seductive but hollow, romance is intense but unstable.
Lubitsch is less concerned with moral resolution than with social insight. What is often called the Lubitsch touch is not charm for its own sake, but a discipline of omission. He trusts implication more than declaration. His films assume an alert viewer, one capable of reading what is withheld. Trouble in Paradise is a perfect example of that economy; it does not resolve tensions but stages them with composure and irony and accepts contradiction as the condition of modern life.
Merthes' choice
11-2
Terrence Malick Days of Heaven 1978
Days of Heaven is a quiet, slow-paced drama set in early-20th-century Texas. Terrence Malick lets the story unfold the way weather does—quietly, inevitably, without explanation.
The plot is simple: a love triangle shaped by poverty, deception, and fragile hope. But narrative is not the film’s true subject. What matters more is how human lives appear small against the vastness of land, light, and time. The landscape often dominates the frame, making the characters seem small and temporary by comparison. The characters rarely explain their feelings. Choices are made quietly, sometimes poorly, and the consequences unfold without drama and film ends not with resolution but with continuation. Life moves on. The fields will grow again. What remains is a quiet ache and a sense that beauty exists alongside harm.
Elisabeth's choice
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