“American cinema seemed to achieve perfection at that time (the 1920s): perfection of the cut, perfection of the stitching, perfection of the fabric . . . Ernst Lubitsch was, in our memory, the man whose oeuvre will someday symbolize this perfection, this flawless style that was the distinctive feature of this art” (Henri Langlois). (Lubitsch) left for Hollywood in 1922 and made . . . daring, sophisticated comedies such as The Marriage Circle, Three Women, Lady Windermere’s Fan and the least seen, Forbidden Paradise . . . the eighth and last film with Pola Negri, their sole Hollywood collaboration and a great public success.

—Emilie Cauquy, La Cinémathèque française