One Hour with You
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
- funny
Cosy, kinetic, gentle paramount / lubitsch, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
Our read · One Hour with You (1932) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive paramount · lubitsch · chevalier entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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