: The last of the silent sex comedies Lubitsch made, So This Is Paris satirizes "sheik fever" and any number of other film/sex-oriented fads as two couples, bored with marriage, flirt with each other's mates. Lubitsch used the silent screen as a sophisticated humorous device: silence was a screen, a perfect foil for the word. "Veterans of the First World War knew Paris was the absolute antithesis of Sauk Center, Minnesota, and Ernst Lubitsch sets the mood for love in the first shot of So This Is Paris when, instead of the obligatory Eiffel Tower, he shows us a bed!...Knowing the tendency of most directors to show all they could, he was a master at withholding information for the sake of innuendo or humor..." (David Shepard)