Gigi (The Parisians) (1958)

1001 Movies ... my own version (1950's) (100 movies items)

" Notes: To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of musicals and it must be one of the movie genres I enjoy the least but, still, I try to keep an open mind and I watch from time to time one of the classics in this genre. This time, I picked up a winner of the Best Picture Academy award directed by Vincent Minnelli, one of the masters in this genre so I thought it should be really good. Eventually, I thought it was indeed not bad but not much more I’m afraid. Many people argued that it was just a w"

1001 Movies Chosen By Johanlefourbe (1002 movies items)

" Notes: To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of musicals and it must be one of the movie genres I enjoy the least but, still, I try to keep an open mind and I watch from time to time one of the classics in this genre. This time, I picked up a winner of the Best Picture Academy award directed by Vincent Minnelli, one of the masters in this genre so I thought it should be really good. Eventually, I thought it was indeed not bad but not much more I’m afraid. Many people argued that it was just a w"

“The 1950s began and ended with Vincente Minnelli films triumphant at the Academy Awards. An American in Paris won for Best Picture, even if Minnelli w”

Gigi

“The 1950s began and ended with Vincente Minnelli films triumphant at the Academy Awards. An American in Paris won for Best Picture, even if Minnelli was overlooked that year, and launched the acting career of star Leslie Caron. Several year later they reunited for Gigi, the musical adaptation of the Colette novella, and went on to sweep the Oscars.   Gigi feels like a celebration of the individual film’s achievements and more like a career achievement award in disguise. This one is uneven, an overstuffed pastry that makes one wonder why it won it all. It wasn’t like it was a slow year as The Defiant Ones, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Some Came Running, Auntie Mame, and The Big Country were all in contention at the ceremony.   There’s plenty to work with in the material, to be sure. H” read more

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"Gigi (Vincente Minnelli, 1958)"

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" DVD- 1hr. 55min. First Viewing Gigi has, to put it mildly, not aged well. Sure, it's a sumptuously mounted production, with gorgeous costume and production design and beautifully vivid cinematography, but it's story is, at best, tone deaf, and at worst creepy as all hell ("Thank Heaven for Little Girls", despite being an earworm, was too weird for me to fully stomach). It also lacks the essential ingredients needed to make a great musical romance; energy, wit and, most importantly, heart. While"

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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (1950's) (126 movies items)

" Notes: To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of musicals and it must be one of the few movie genres I enjoy the least but, still, I try to keep an open mind and I watch from time to time one of the classics in this genre. This time, I picked up a winner of the Best Picture Academy award directed by Vincent Minnelli, one of the masters in this genre so I thought it should be really good. Eventually, I thought it was indeed not bad but not much more I’m afraid. Many people argued that it was just"

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2020) (1001 movies items)

" Notes: To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of musicals and it must be one of the few movie genres I enjoy the least but, still, I try to keep an open mind and I watch from time to time one of the classics in this genre. This time, I picked up a winner of the Best Picture Academy award directed by Vincent Minnelli, one of the masters in this genre so I thought it should be really good. Eventually, I thought it was indeed not bad but not much more I’m afraid. Many people argued that it was just"