Great first American film by the great master Wilder. A curious and transcendent film, not only because of the exquisite construction of a script that is somewhat complex and delicate to transmit in images, but because it touches in a frivolous and superficial way on the topic of puritanism and controversial romantic relationships between young people and not so young people.
In this context, Wilder learned a lot from his teacher Lubitsch about the trick to bringing the frivolous and dubiously moral to the public, without making it too scandalous. Perhaps it can be interpreted as a hypocritical double standard, but it is certainly one of the characteristics of the screwball comedy that has shone so brightly on the Hollywood scene in its Golden Age.
Ginger Rogers' ability to play an attractive village girl and, at the same time, a helpless and innocent young girl is delightful. In both roles she dazzles with her provocative beauty.
In this context, Wilder learned a lot from his teacher Lubitsch about the trick to bringing the frivolous and dubiously moral to the public, without making it too scandalous. Perhaps it can be interpreted as a hypocritical double standard, but it is certainly one of the characteristics of the screwball comedy that has shone so brightly on the Hollywood scene in its Golden Age.
Ginger Rogers' ability to play an attractive village girl and, at the same time, a helpless and innocent young girl is delightful. In both roles she dazzles with her provocative beauty.