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		<title>DESIGN FOR LIVING Criterion Blu-ray Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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When those of us who have grown up watching modern cinema view pre-Production Code movies, it can be easy for us to ask, “What’s the big deal?”  By today’s standards, much of what was considered “morally questionable” enough to spur the introduction of the Code in the 1920s would be considered laughably tame.  Every now and then, however, one has the opportunity to watch a pre-Code film that causes one to understand (with a nod to differing historical norms, of course) how certain movies could indeed generate such uproar.  Ernst Lubitsch’s Design for Living (based on Noel Coward’s play of the same name) is just such a film. Hit the jump for our review of the Criterion Blu-ray for Design for Living.

It is not that Design for Living is filled with nudity; there is none.  Or foul language; nary a dirty word is to be had--although there is a certain frankness in the use of such ordinary, non-obscene words as “sex” (in terms of the act, not gender) that one suspects to be far more representative of the language uttered by everyday Americans than that of most intra-Code movies.

No, Design for Living’s taboos are purely of the situational.

Gilda Farrell (Miriam Hopkins) meets struggling playwright Tom Chambers (Frederic March) and struggling artist George Curtis (Gary Cooper) on a train to Paris.  Tom and George are roommates, and both fall in love with Gilda—who falls in love with both of them.  When Tom and George realize that she is seeing both of ...]]></description>
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