Design for Living (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
Three hearts that beat as one.
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Design for Living (2-DVD)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 6, 2011
- Originally Released: 1933
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Franklin Pangborn & Edward Everett Horton | |
Performer: | Isabel Jewell & Jane Darwell | |
Directed by | Ernst Lubitsch | |
Screenwriting by | Ben Hecht | |
Screenplay by | Ben Hecht | |
Composition by | Nathaniel W. Finston | |
Story by | Noël Coward | |
Produced by | Ernst Lubitsch | |
Director of Photography: | Victor Milner |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 8/10 --
It isn't [Lubitsch's] fleetest work, or most sustained, but it has moments of unbridled genius.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
The general effect is as if they suddenly realized that they're in a Noel Coward drama, and are stymied by the thought.
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Vanity Fair
Rating: 4/4 --
The "Lubitsch Touch," indeed: edged and between the ribs before you know it's being brandished.
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Film Freak Central
Rating: C+ --
An elegant romantic farce that seems heavy-handed when it's meant to be lighthearted.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Even when Lubitsch filmed a play by Noel Coward, he still made it his own. Design for Living doesn't feel like a celebrated play; it feels like a Lubitsch movie.
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Combustible Celluloid
[A] witty, sophisticated romantic comedy....At the center, Hopkins is a powerhouse -- smart and libertine, with a no-nonsense honesty... -- Grade: A
A.V. Club
Well, maybe it is a little lumpy for Lubitsch, but I think the film more than holds its own.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
DESIGN FOR LIVING was based on the stage comedy by Noel Coward, though little of his dialogue actually made it to the screen. Playwright Fredric March and artist Gary Cooper both fall in love with Miriam Hopkins, an American living in Paris. Both men love the girl, and the girl can't make up her mind between the two men, so the threesome decide to move in together--strictly platonically, of course. As the men gain in success and prominence, the chasteness of the "menage a trois" begins to be threatened, and soon both March and Cooper clash over Hopkins. She reacts by marrying her wealthy but dull boss (Edward Everett Horton). Miriam is bored to tears until March and Cooper invade one of her husband's stuffy parties and chase the tiresome guests away. Miriam's husband huffily agrees to a divorce, and the girl returns to her unorthodox relationship with her two former suitors. The subtle homosexual implications of the Noel Coward stage original were dissipated by the presence of the aggressively masculine Gary Cooper and Fredric March in the film version of DESIGN FOR LIVING. Replacing these implications were the equally subtle but more "mainstream" boudoir innuendos of director Ernst Lubitsch.
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