The last event in the CRIMINALI DA STRAPAZZO (THIRD-RATE CRIMINALS) festival features a screening of Ernst Lubitsch’s film Trouble in Paradise, introduced by Andrea Mattacheo.

The final event in the CRIMINALI DA STRAPAZZO: Ladri, truffatori e gangster nella commedia americana (THIRD-RATE CRIMINALS: Thieves, cheats and gangsters in American comedy) festival will feature a screening of Ernst Lubitsch’s film Trouble in Paradise on Monday 20 December 2010, at 3.30 p.m. in the Bibliomediateca.

A man who directed some of the most outstanding comedies in classic Hollywood film – Design for Living (1932), Ninotchka (1938), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), To Be or not to Be (1942) – Lubitsch was a German who emigrated to the United States in 1923. In this film he exposes ­– with disarming brilliance and stylistic sobriety – upper middle class society, where pretence becomes the rule of good behaviour. He does this by telling a tale of misunderstandings, random events and regrets, with that exhilarating and refined touch that cannot help but leave us smiling.