Acclaimed filmmaker Guy Maddin joins us in Studio 9 to delve into Ernst Lubitsch's enchanting "love triangle film", Design for Living (1933).

The striking and confident Gilda (Miriam Hopkins) works as a commercial artist for a successful advertising agency. Upon meeting roommates and close friends Tom (Fredric March) and George (Gary Cooper) on a train to Paris, Gilda ignites a fierce love triangle between all three. Unable to decide who she likes more, Gilda and her suitors cook up a gentleman’s agreement that involves all of them living together. Adapted from a play by Noël Coward and produced during the pre-Code cinema era in which rules of modesty had yet to be implemented by film studios, this deliciously provocative and witty film embodies the sexual freedom and independence of Paris in the 1920s.

“Ernst Lubitsch’s Design for Living (1933) is what sexy should be — delightful, romantic, agonizing ecstasy. And it’s not just sexy but also revolutionary, daring, sweet, sour, cynical, carefree, poignant, and so far ahead of its time that one could cite it as not only a pre-Code masterpiece but also a prefeminist testimonial” (Kim Morgan, Criterion Collection).

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