See this film retrospective: The Lubitsch Touch @ the Brattle

Compare any of today's so-called romantic comedies with the elegant confections of Ernst Lubitsch from eight decades ago and you'll probably get depressed. So just forget about them and enjoy the offerings in the Brattle Theatre retrospective series The Lubitsch Touch. It starts tomorrow tonight with Ninotchka (1939), in which Greta Garbo plays a Soviet commissar whose party-line propriety is shattered when she visits Paris on assignment and falls for the couture and the charms of a class enemy, a Count played by Melvyn Douglas.

Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge :: Friday, March 15 @ 5 pm + 7:30 pm [also Saturday and Sunday; check online for times] :: $9.75; $7.75 students; $6.75 seniors :: 617.876.6837 or brattlefilm.org