John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).
John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.
Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.
Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.
When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.
Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.
John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.
The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
非常积极，非常正确，感觉汪汪队比少先队还会洗脑。小朋友是挺喜欢的，但是我觉得有必要让孩子少看这些动画片。
这才是真正的大电影，特效应有尽有，画面精美，不愧是派拉蒙出品，比20年那部电视剧拼接的超能救援强百倍！
这才是真正的大电影，特效应有尽有，画面精美，不愧是派拉蒙出品，比20年那部电视剧拼接的超能救援强百倍！
最近看得比较开心的一个片，虽然有点设计过度。孩子和堂姐在争论到底要说自己是天主教徒还是新教徒，有爱的哲学家爷爷奶奶，经常吵架但是有爱又漂亮会跳舞的父母，和课堂里喜欢的女孩子双向奔赴一个前进一个退步。孩子时，自以为老成，但实际上又一窍不通，对很多东西视而不见，却记得广告里的奥妙洗衣粉。
总的来说还算是喜欢吧，但看完这部电影觉得好遗憾，因为换个导演拍这个电影观感会好很多，整部电影给我的感觉就是不协调的感觉很重，导演从头到尾用到了很多电影拍摄的技巧或者说是方法，也致敬了特别多好莱坞（怎么全是好莱坞）60年代甚至更早的电影，但给我的感觉是这些电影方法是为了表现而表现，致敬也一样，对电影的整体发展并没有起到太多的作用，反而让电影显得有点奇怪。除了正午以外我真的不知道导演致敬的那些电影到底是在干嘛，可能是他在回顾自己的童年吧。不过本片优点其实也是不少的，剧本非常不错，群戏很出色，后半段拍的还是挺有感觉的。妈妈的表演最好，发挥也最大，爷爷其次，爸爸和奶奶的表现也都非常不错，但这个小男孩反而一般，有点缺乏灵性。最后吐槽一下疑似奥妙的广告植入，我真的有笑到
以小男孩视角回忆北爱尔兰动荡年代，应该能打动一代观众。天主教地区的新教徒家庭遭两派势力撕扯，正邪善恶被牧师的威吓和抢劫巧克力这样的童稚视角化解了不少苦涩。爷爷的粗糙，老妈的恋乡，都能有跨文化的动人之处。但总体来说还是欠缺力度，黑白摄影也没用。
糖水片，六十年代北爱尔兰中产的账单烦恼，离开熟悉环境的抉择，难以共情的童年乡愁。
大背景、小人物、童年视角和乡愁的老配方，那场骚乱更像是强加的戏剧动力，个体裹挟其中的层次处理得简单又混乱。比较真诚动人的是小男孩一家人相处的点滴，电影里的牛仔主持公正，飞车渡过难关，现实中离开的和留下的都是时代洪流里的浮木。孩子关心的本该是座位的远近，要做的选择确实海的这边和那边。
几次都看不下去，终于坚持着断断续续看完了。摄制确实很精致，演员阵容也很强大。但导演编剧对整个政治事件采取了一种回避淡化的态度，只把它作为一块画出来的幕布，而非一个真正的时代背景，所以全片弥漫着一种矫情的文艺气质——虽然我不懂但是我也不愿去搞懂我只想发掘和记下每一个特殊年代的温暖时刻。
805｜1.5，从来没见过哪个导演在第一场戏就把自己的缺点自信地暴露出来。航拍和慢镜头太掉价了，机位也是随心而动，加上莫名其妙的黑白（黑白与彩色的转换更是令人摸不着头脑），光从摄影一个层面就暴露了肯尼思·布拉纳愚蠢、自恋而不自知的对视听语言的理解。剧本层面也非常平庸，对于回忆的描写只能用寡淡来形容，不断重复Belfast 只会让人觉得这个写剧本的人水平太低。《罗马》里有一直在重复自己的家乡吗？我都不好意思拿《罗马》和这片比，真是一个天堂一个地狱。唯一值得称道的可能是演员的演技。
7分，心灵深处是故乡，虽然是历史，但是很私人珍藏记忆的表达，“致留下的故人，致离开的游子，致所有迷茫的人”单方面觉得和奥斯卡最佳影片应该无缘，大概率最佳导演。片子靠音乐，戏剧，电影片段，电视机四大媒介叙事转场真的很讨巧，但黑白色调营造出的强距离感，除个别场面确实恐怖心悸之外，剩下毫无共情，但又仿佛看纪录片一般真实残酷。家乡不再柔情，在一次又一次内心挣扎与执念下面对残酷的事实还是选择了离开，在被迫相隔两地后，会更珍惜身边的人吧。
朱迪单奇依然惊艳，每个人心里都有一座叫故乡的城，对阿方索.卡隆来说是罗马，对肯尼思.布拉纳来说就是这部电影。
真的不太行：歌挺好听也太多太密集了，把电影质感拉下来不少，像条长MV；彩色和黑白的表达蛮浅表的；有些镜头让我想有什么隐喻吗，结果莫名其妙。不过奶奶说的那句“Go now. Don’t look back.”我情不自禁泪目了。
导演用相似的美学风格拍摄了一部全方位降级的英国版《罗马》，很私人（里面小孩还在看《雷神》的漫画）但也确实能力有限，个别佳句出彩但完全无法连贯情感。不过看的时候突然想到咱们也能拍部中国版《罗马》，黑白画面的80年代首都小孩在胡同家属院中玩耍打闹，偶尔有经过的大学生会逗他给点冰棍小零食什么的，直到有一天看到他们衣衫褴褛跌跌撞撞地逃进胡同......
挺分裂的，一边是宗教纷争的动乱，一边是灯红酒绿的慰藉
最近看得比较开心的一个片，虽然有点设计过度。孩子和堂姐在争论到底要说自己是天主教徒还是新教徒，有爱的哲学家爷爷奶奶，经常吵架但是有爱又漂亮会跳舞的父母，和课堂里喜欢的女孩子双向奔赴一个前进一个退步。孩子时，自以为老成，但实际上又一窍不通，对很多东西视而不见，却记得广告里的奥妙洗衣粉。
What works还是1969年北爱尔兰这个历史性的背景，把影片的深度和维度都拔高了，(thanks to当年写过Derry Girls 3000字essay 还算有了解)。Kenneth Branagh再次证明是个mediocre导演；摄影方面的deep focus, 构图有点公民凯恩的风格，但挺不适合这种家庭回忆的drama... still, rooting for Caitriona Balfe to get that Oscar!
那是已经纷乱的土地，它唯一的价值是，小男孩在学会识别差异之前先学会了爱。
正在读一本90年代国内拼死偷渡去美国热潮的书，不是说人的suffer可以分出高下，但是就，不太能relate从爱尔兰搬去英格兰升职加薪还给房子的痛苦。
candy妹妹人生第一次进电影院，我自己全篇陪着，看不太懂动画片，但里面有句台词，大意是：英雄也会害怕，但是英雄还是会勇往直前。这大抵就是生活吧。
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