Ernst Lubitsch excelled at playing with love triangles in classic Hollywood screwball comedies. Almost every one of his memorable films relies of this key dramatic shape. But you can’t call it worn-out because he re-made it fresher and fresher every time. That Uncertain Feeling is another instance of Lubitsch raising the bar for himself. It’s a neurotic story about a bored, hiccup-addled housewife, Jill (Merle Oberon) falling for a nihilistic musician (Burgess Meredith) she meets in the waiting room of her psychoanalyst office. What’s Jill’s bland, insurance salesman husband (Melvyn Douglas) to do? Proof that Lubitsch touch can make lighting strike more than twice, this film skewers and adores just about everything: marriage, divorce, psychology, art, business, music and that uncertain feeling, love.
