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Ninotchka

1939

Ernst Lubitsch

Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Bela Lugosi, Ina Claire ...

7.9

15,564

Romance. Comedy Ninotchka is a stern, straightlaced Communist Party member sent to Paris to finish the sale of Grand Duchess Swana's jewels for the Soviet government. But, while studying the frivolous materialism of Paris, Ninotchka meets Leon, Swana's lawyer and sometime lover, and the two become enamored with one another -- without knowing each other's identity. The Grand Duchess, in the meantime, is suing the USSR for ownership of the jewels. What ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Frank S. Nugent The New York Times	"An amusing panel of caricatures (...) Stalin, we repeat, won't like it; but, unless your tastes hew too closely to the party line, we think you will, immensely."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"It's still consistently amusing, and Garbo throws herself into the fray with engaging vigour."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"[An] enduring delight (...) Iridescent and teaming with vitality, Garbo glows in her penultimate film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Sloman Radio Times	"This is without doubt one of the funniest, most original screen comedies ever made (...) Director Ernst Lubitsch brings his magic touch (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Despite the bubbly erotic wit of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1939 comedy, the movie’s political satire is chillingly serious."	POS
United States	Clayton Dillard Slant	"'Ninotchka' is a profusely difficult work on the nature of comedy (...) implicitly asking if human civilization could conceivably reach a point where it would be comprehensively inappropriate to laugh (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Garbo fully complements the casual sophistication and stylistic grace of director Ernst Lubitsch (...) The lovers inhabit a world of elegance and poise that is uniquely and movingly Lubitsch's."	POS

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