The Girl with the Hatbox
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Director: Boris Barnet
1927 / 94min / 35mm
Barnet’s solo directorial debut spins infectiously charming social comedy from the story of a spunky but sweet-natured, suburban milliner (ill-fated thespian Anna Sten in her star-making turn) who falls in unlikely love with a haplessly poverty-stricken student against the hustling backdrop of New Economic Policy–era Moscow. Barnet peppers the proceedings with classic pratfalls and sight gags executed with easygoing aplomb, while building to a madcap chase sequence as giddily satisfying as any by Lloyd or Keaton, but what marks this sure-handed early effort as the work of a true original is its gracefully understated notes of everyday pathos.
35mm print courtesy of Austrian Filmmuseum
Introduction by George Eastman Museum Senior Curator, Peter Bagrov
Live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on Friday, March 13th
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