Trouble in Paradise

“Trouble in Paradise is for me Ernst Lubitsch's ultimate masterpiece, even much more than To Be or Not to Be and so on and so on. It's the best critique of capitalism and a wonderful reversal of the usual logic of transgression because the point is that The Hero's life as a robber and so on, crime life is normal life, and then transgression is precisely the idea to marry and so on.”

“Let’s start with Trouble in Paradise. For those of you that don’t know the great Ernst Lubitsch, this is one of his most sophisticated comedies. This stars the great Herbert Marshall, who is so dryly wonderful in this movie, and Miriam Hopkins, and they both are competing pickpockets who meet trying to basically con the other, and it turns into a great love story... The dialogue is so witty, as is all Lubitsch dialogue.”