100 Years of⊠Lady Windermere’s Fan
Mary Pickford once described the director Ernst Lubitsch as a âdirector of doorsâ. In Lady Windermereâs Fan, an adaptation of Oscar Wildeâs play, you can see what she means. She meant it dismissively, though the door, and whatâs behind it â or not â is key to Lubitschâs work generally, and specifically here. This is a story all about secrets â as Wildeâs so often were â a tale of mistaken identity with ironic distance between what the people on the screen imagine themselves to be and how the audience sees them. To thumbnail-sketch a delicately intertwined plot, it centres on Lady Windermere, who is in love with her husband but being pressed … Read more