Unfaithfully Yours

Update

Cinémathèque’s Preston Sturges season will take place at The Capitol with ACMI Cinemas currently closed due to urgent building works. There is no box office at The Capitol, so new memberships must be purchased online or at the ACMI Tickets and Information Desk, which will remain open until 7:30pm on screening nights. We apologise for any inconvenience and look forward to welcoming Cinematheque members back to the ACMI Cinemas soon.

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A failure upon first release with both audiences and critics, Preston Sturges’ last great film is a hilarious and often-dark portrait of a crazed orchestra conductor (Rex Harrison) who, while performing pieces by Rossini, Wagner and Tchaikovsky, fantasises three ways to deal with his wife’s (Linda Darnell) supposed infidelity.

Now seen as one of Sturges’ supreme achievements, and championed by filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Terry Jones, Unfaithfully Yours takes the writer-director’s penchant for verbal and physical comedy to its logical and heightened extreme. Harrison’s brilliantly staged destruction of a room is one of the cinema’s greatest comic set-pieces.