An original Kodascope print of this witty film, on which Andrew Sarris commented: “It seems incredible that...Lady Windermere's Fan was an improvement on Oscar Wilde's original. Everyone remembers Wilde's epigrams, which were largely irrelevant to the plot, but Lubitsch redeemed Wilde's silly melodramatics through the sardonic wit of his images and players.”
“Georges Sadoul, dean of film historians, years later called it ‘Lubitsch's best silent film, (full of) incisive details, discreet touches, nuances of gestures, where behavior betrays the character and discloses the sentiments of the personages. With Lubitsch a new art carried on the subtleties of Marivaux and the comedy of manners made its debut on the screen.' Edmund Wilson, surely no movie fan, rhapsodized about it at the time, pointing out even its physical beauty: ‘He has clothed it in such beautiful photography and directed it with so much resourcefulness that he has turned out a very attractive film.'” --Herman G. Weinberg