
High class European thief Gaston Monescu meets his soul mate Lily, a pickpocket masquerading as a countess. The two join forces and come under the employ of Mme. Colet, the beautiful owner of the Colet perfume company. Gaston works as Mme. Colet's personal secretary under the alias Monsieur La Valle. Rumors start to fly as 'M. La Valle' steals Mme. Colet away from her other suitors. When the secret of his true identity catches up to him, Gaston is caught between the two beaut... (Full plot summary below)
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High class European thief Gaston Monescu meets his soul mate Lily, a pickpocket masquerading as a countess. The two join forces and come under the employ of Mme. Colet, the beautiful owner of the Colet perfume company. Gaston works as Mme. Colet's personal secretary under the alias Monsieur La Valle. Rumors start to fly as 'M. La Valle' steals Mme. Colet away from her other suitors. When the secret of his true identity catches up to him, Gaston is caught between the two beautiful women.
Leave your thoughts about Trouble in Paradise.
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe situations are adult. The sexual innuendo is pointed and unmistakable. There's a golden glow to the print, and the actresses are extraordinary. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFilmmakers, screenwriters, actors and audiences can learn every sort of valuable trick from it. |
| PopMattersMichael S. SmithTrouble in Paradise is full of perfectly executed scenes. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceThe distillate of Lubitsch's cinema of insinuation and evanescence |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIf one considers that motion picture sound had only been in place for three years when Trouble in Paradise was made, the level of sophistication it shows is astonishing. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt is about people who are almost impossibly adult, in that fanciful movie way -- so suave, cynical, sophisticated, smooth and sure that a lifetime is hardly long enough to achieve such polish. They glide. |
| CinemaniaDan JardineThis is, without a single word of hyperbole, one of the most taut scripts and perfectly-executed pieces of comic direction in the history of film. |
| Apollo GuideDerek Smith'The satire is sharp, the comedy is witty and urbane, and the characters are so full of life it feels as if they might just walk off the screen.' |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksTrouble in Paradise (1932) is generally considered producer/director Ernst Lubitsch's greatest film... |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrIt's possible to prefer other Ernst Lubitsch films for their more serene stylings and more plangent emotions, but this 1932 production is probably the most perfectly representative of his works. |