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.
8/10.中间那一大段长镜头看的真让人焦心啊，女主的绝望写在脸上，崩溃在心里。在疫情期间英国的医疗体系第一个抛弃的大概就是养老院里的老人们，太惨了。最后朱迪科默对英国政府抗疫政策的质疑和谴责真是震耳欲聋啊。这时，一对比就能看出中国政府的抗疫政策有多么伟大，中国人民有多么幸运，能活下去才是最高的人权。
一贯的吃饭喝酒聊天，结尾的地方有被触动到，这是情书啊，感受到了满满的爱意
【7.5+】看似视角很小，其实什么都拍了。资源的短缺、leader的不作为、重症的惨状、孤立无援的绝望，一个长镜头就全部串起。各种先锋恐怖片技法轮番上阵，营造出一个与世隔绝、黑暗狭窄、使人窒息的看护病院，而病毒就像恶灵一样逐步在每个病房间蔓延。不需要你主动去共情，它就已经令你想逃离。后半段的逃跑情节，直接把私人情感与集体意志对立起来，让人惊觉在绝对的执行力面前，哪怕只救一个人也是痴心妄想，无数绝望的积累才让最后的警车内穿墙向观众喊话令人信服，天灾一直是人祸的替罪羊。目前看到过的最好的疫情电影。
无法不给这部高评价，毕竟洪常秀的电影拍的从来不是故事，而是情感在人物之间的流动，再也没有比彼此确定地爱着更为强烈的情感了，不是吗。
日常是琐碎黑白尴尬，别人都是讨厌鬼，只有你汗涔涔出现在我面前，喝酒后有朦胧眼神和可爱睡态，人人都爱你。所以一定得有一部我们的电影，你唱着婚礼进行曲，因为你喜欢树叶和野花，所以整个画面都得为你变成彩色。
我们必须承认的是，因为疫情，世界上太多人的命运被彻底改变了。可惜的是，可能因为创痛还没消散，主创没有深挖。
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真正的灵魂拷问：“When did our lives stop being worth the same？”
“为什么不让这么好的演员去演商业电影”？(电影里的台词）感觉听到了一场真实的灵魂拷问，完全是一部洪尚秀的私欲电影啊，拍独立电影就是浪费时间吗？拍黑白就是刻意吗？最后作为摄影的洪尚秀和金敏喜的一场“婚礼”，满屏的秀恩爱直接溢出屏幕啊。
就像日常聊天，和朋友共度的日常一样，特别不电影的电影，所有的情绪都在每一句台词中间。洪尚秀的镜头下的金敏喜也太好看，尤其是最后捧着花束对着镜头互道“我爱你”，金敏喜眼神里有星星。
欧美防疫一塌糊涂，但电影层面人家确实拍的好，至少这样的题材很少追求高大全，永远落在个人的故事上。两个主演真的是演技炸裂，看得有点心酸
所以全程用长焦镜头是因为防疫考虑而做出的牺牲吗？另外，利物浦口音也挺有意思的（虽然听上去已经是另一种语言了……
《在异国》之后最有趣的洪常秀。依然是遍地可寻的自我指涉，关于生产创作、人际遭逢、情感生活，以及少不了的对敏后的赞美与示爱，被他剪碎重组为一天的奇遇邂逅和一段戏中戏。坦诚的是自然与动人，精巧的是轻盈与流畅，过曝的黑白画面像摊开的素描本，描绘着生活的种种可能，而彩色的真实又那么甜美。年岁渐长的洪导面对时间的解答：如果艺术攫取自生活的吉光片羽，那生活本身的每时每刻都理应是被宝贝的magic hour。“天色尚早，但很快就暗了，我们去散步吧。”
很喜欢探讨创作的部分，还有社交中的尴尬处境。Lincoln Center/Secret Screening
电影也直面控诉了这种无能 不做为
导演 “Vlog”拍完啦 他们的社交真的完完全全韩国社会的拐弯抹角说话方式 尴尬就笑 十句里八九句都在互夸 害 但当自己在用韩语说话也会不知不觉以该标准的方式来对话
疫情初期得不到医疗援助的一家疗养院，护工为了保护其中一位病人私自把他带出疗养院。这是目前以疫情为背景的电影里视角最小，但情感抒发最直接的影视作品，作为电影一般吧，但是直击且耿直。这里没有英雄，只有普通人，甚至是不太懂规矩的普通人，工作上尽职尽责也保护不了疗养院的住户，跟政府闹，跟老板吵也不过是发泄情绪，偷偷带走关系好的病人作为个人理由充分，事关生死，作为社会人，违反的可不止是一点点规矩，可是规矩能保命吗，这是个难题，最后sarah冲着镜头呐喊你们管过普通人死活吗，高潮结束，多一句都是多余·~~~
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洪常秀的自我表述与公开示爱，个人不太喜欢。
《草叶集》里有一幕金敏喜对着花盆笑，这部在结尾安排金敏喜捧着花束唱结婚进行曲，想狠狠踹翻这碗狗粮。看《独自在夜晚的海边》时感慨金敏喜的演艺道路似乎已经被洪困住了，但千金难买她愿意，双向奔赴拦不住，作为围观者只能祝福她。喝酒聊天戏还是洪氏出品的最舒服，整体感觉确实比以前松弛轻盈了很多。
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