| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role Maurice Chevalier |
| Best Art Direction Hans Dreier | |||
| Best Cinematography Victor Milner | |||
| Best Director Ernst Lubitsch | |||
| Best Picture (Paramount Famous Lasky). | |||
| Best Sound, Recording Franklin Hansen (sound director) (Paramount Famous Lasky Studio Sound Department). | |||
Paramount Pictures
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Criterion Eclipse)
Maurice Chevalier is an ambassador to France for the fictional country of Sylvania. He becomes a stereotypical Frenchman after a series of illicit affairs and is called back to his home country. He proceeds to seduce the queen and marries her. However, when it becomes apparent that he is nothing more than a "kept man" he threatens to go back to Paris. She acquiesces and their marriage changes from hopeless to happy. What starts out as a biting satire of traditional marriage roles instead only reaffirms them. Chevalier's sexist antics are tiresome and the film is badly dated.
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