Over 90 years before Challengers, cinema audiences were treated to one of the more elegant and humane portraits of polyamory to ever grace the big screen. PSI favorite Ernst Lubitsch returns with another of his classics, Design for Living, presented from a 16mm print courtesy of our friends at Kinonik in Portland, Maine!
Criterion writes, “Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins play a trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult ‘gentleman’s agreement’ in this continental pre-Code comedy, freely adapted by Ben Hecht from a play by Noël Coward and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. A risqué relationship story and a witty take on creative pursuits, the film concerns a commercial artist (Hopkins) unable—or unwilling—to choose between the equally dashing painter (Cooper) and playwright (March) she meets on a train en route to the City of Light. Design for Living is Lubitsch at his sexiest, an entertainment at once debonair and racy, featuring three stars at the height of their allure.”
At Eberle Studios
229 East 9th Avenue, Homestead, PA 15120
Doors at 7:30, film at 8:00
Tickets $12. Pittsburgh Sound + Image members get in for FREE!
