简介：戏名难免使人联想到食色「性」也，但慾望的对象？对不起，却是个男儿。美国蠔业大王有个刁蛮女，一天觉得自己非要嫁人不可，被媒人相中的落难欧洲王子派出心腹试探虚实，蠔女一声多谢马上拉去註册结婚，当晚大排筵席，酒饱饭醉后只差没半点洞房动机。直至穷王子真人现眼前，慾望倾泻得一发不可收拾。女性情慾在刘別谦笔下从来都很坦然和直接，蠔女这荷里活女性原型，令后来者亦甘拜下风。揶揄资本家与消费社会的大场面可观亦抵死，笔触细腻幽默。刘別谦第二部长片，是他打造品牌之作，惊人的成熟导技令人击节復感动。
Everything Lubitsch learned about the art of comedy in his German period comes to a grand summation in this saber-sharp satire on the crass materialism of America's nouveau riche, and the pompous airs of the declining European aristocracy. Ossi, daughter of the oyster tycoon (but more like Attila the Hun than an heiress), demands a prince when the Shoe-cream King's daughter lands a count. Prince Nucky is chosen for his title and his debts. But when he sends his bald friend Josef to call on Ossi, he is mistaken for the prince. What follows is the most Gargantuan wedding feast ever filmed, with an assembly of 300 hired waiters and a peevish subversion of gender roles.
Source: 28th HKIFF
