Here's an offer you can't resist: a romantic comedy starring Katherine Hepburn as a strong-willed heiress named Tracy Lords who must choose between three men: her prim and proper fiancé, George Kittridge, her ex-husband, C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant), and a wry, sarcastic journalist, Mike Conner (James Stewart). Of course George is almost immediately out of the question, and Hepburn must choose between Grant and Stewart. She isn't gonna get a bad deal either way, that's for sure.

But at the outset, none of the men really love her for who she is. Dexter left her because he thought her frigid and unforgiving of faults; George loves her precisely because she's cold and far-off, like a statue, or a goddess;…

While not as frantic as Bringing Up Baby, Howard Hawks pairing of Grant and Hepburn, The Philadelphia story certainly has a giddy–up pace, and is even more voluminous in the infectious charm department.

There is a confluence of stars at the top of their game, an incredible script adaptation, and a sharp as nails director who understood the material that formed a perfect storm of romantic comedy. I’ve read every scene was a single take, and the shooting schedule was a scant six weeks.

Of course, Katherine Hepburn knew the role inside out, as she had played it on Broadway, and her Tracy Lords is the backbone of the picture. Flawed, yet strong .. confident, yet vulnerable, she choreographs the…

Je me suis acheté, comme cadeau d'une St-Valentin solitaire, le Criterion de ce film que j’adore énormément. Est-ce le meilleur des comédies de remariage, voir du genre de la comédie romantique? Cette opinion se défend. En tout cas, il figure maintenant dans mes 4 films Letterboxd.

C’est extraordinaire et peut-être même encore plus à la seconde écoute, où il est plus facile de saisir dans chaque geste ou dialogue la polysémie à laquelle donnent lieu ces chassés-croisés. Je raffole de ces situations comique qui occasionnent de réinventer ou d'abandonner les masques selon l’interlocuteur. Les trois acteurs principaux n’ont jamais été aussi bons, d’autant plus qu’ici on les fait correspondre précisément aux types qu’ils incarnent et qui ont fait leur renommée.…