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Wedding Rehearsal (1932)

Director: Alexander Korda

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Escapism par excellence, with high society weddings, country house romances on warm summer nights, and the working class strange 'men in green baize aprons with long hairs on their arms'. Korda has an acute mid-European appreciation of English foibles, and is able to poke fun at, yet still celebrate, traditional concern with dogs, cats and debutantes. A witty, if structurally inconsequential script, superb performances from Grossmith and delicately twittering old Lady Tree, Korda's enthusiasm, and the presence (it's little more) of breathtakingly beautiful Oberon, sweep one into a hypnotic if sickly world of Gerties and Berties, where problems revolve around whether Rose-Marie should marry Bimbo and Mary-Rose should marry Tootles.

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Kathryn said...

Posted on Mar 06 2009 07:10 What? Long arm hair? Okay, this movie obviously is a precursor to "Father of the Bride" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral" yet it had a bit more intellectual plot. Maybe it was the era, maybe it was because it was British. This is not to say that subsequent films of the same situational comedy were any less intellectually challenging. At least until we dumbed it down even further with "The Wedding Crashers" and "Runaway Bride" But, you get my point, all wedding dramas can be traced back to this wonderful wedding(s) movie. And take note of the traditions, etiquette and chivalry that has been lost through the years. One only has to watch the previews of "My Big Redneck Wedding" to realize that we have not evolved at all, if anything, regressed as human beings. (Sorry for the rant) In summary, I quite enjoyed "Wedding Rehearsal" and wish that more people would take lessons from it's story. I guess that would require more people to watch and understand it. What are the chances?

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