Allo Berlin? Ici Paris!

Julien Duvuvier's third talkie is a wonder of happy whims, actually a grandiose experiment in fitting together all kinds of loose ends, but with a very pertinent story, a romance between Berlin and Paris by telephone, giving the film a marvellously tenable structure, but the main thing of the film is all the comic elements, the highlight being the banquet of the president with all its arrangements and circumstances, in which Duvivier really transcends all limits of hilarious possibilities by focussing on details and making them the dominating element - the whole film is a splendid caleidoscope of merry details fitting into each other. It's no more than an entertainment, but as such it is formidable.