Synopsis
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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Cast
- James StewartAlfred Kralik
- Margaret SullavanKlara Novak
- Frank MorganHugo Matuschek
- Joseph SchildkrautFerencz Vadas
- Sara HadenFlora
- Felix BressartPirovitch
- William TracyPepi Katona
- Inez CourtneyIlona
- Sarah EdwardsWoman Customer
- Edwin MaxwellDoctor
Recommandations
- 100
TV Guide Magazine
This may be the best romantic comedy ever made. The great Ernst Lubitsch handles his "small" theme brilliantly, bringing the lives of everyday people to the screen as he had never done before. - 100
Austin Chronicle
The real surprise is in how earnestly the director of some of the finest, spikiest romantic comedies ever made is willing to step off the gas and let heartfelt romance win the day. And it so very winning. - 100
Slant Magazine
The charm of the gimmick in Lubitsch’s take (directing a script by Samuel Raphaelson, who had collaborated with the German-born filmmaker on comedies and melodramas alike) is passed over quickly in favor of studying both its effects on those involved, as well as the dynamics of the workplace at large. - 100
Time Out
For my money, this is Lubitsch’s masterpiece, an immaculate conflation of his sprightly shooting style, expertly layered wisecracking and bracing realism, all topped off with a romantic subplot that offers a nakedly joyous celebration of young, serendipitous love. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
What makes Shop timeless, ironically, is the specificity of its setting: a small department store in Budapest at the end of the global Depression. - 90
Chicago Reader
Interwoven with subplots centered on the other members of the shop's little family, the romance proceeds through Lubitsch's brilliant deployment of point of view, allowing the audience to enter the perceptions of each individual character at exactly the right moment to develop maximum sympathy and suspense. - 90
Variety
Although picture carries the indelible stamp of Ernst Lubitsch at his best in generating humor and human interest from what might appear to be unimportant situations, it carries further to impress via the outstanding characterizations by Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart in the starring spots. - 80
The Guardian
This is a sharp, elegant, unsentimental picture in which Stewart plays a character who is often gloomy and downright unsympathetic.
