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Plot:
Gerry (Gene Kelly) is an American expatriate painter in post-WWII Paris. Struggling to find success in both art and love, his life is turned upside down when he meets and falls in love with Lise (Lesl...( read more 
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MCT:September 11, 2008And this is suppose to be a ballet?? It is just an awesome movie and the skills of Gene Kelly as an actor, dancer, and choreographer are unbelievable.
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MCT:July 15, 2008i looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove gene kelly so im gonna try this one, dont remember the tital , so ill reresh my OLD memory ;)
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MCT:May 18, 2008They wanted to pair Kelly and Charisse in a full movie after 'Singin' in the Rain' but she got pregnant and couldn't do the film. Caron stepped in and it was great! The two later teamed in 'Brigadoon'!
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MCT:April 8, 2008The guy who made the 501 clearly loves dream ballets.
It's funny that I just watched this and The Red Shoes within a week of each other. Yeah, they were both pretty amazing. I have to say that I want to be Gene Kelly. Think about how awesome that would be if you could just break out into ridiculous dance anytime you want. He's just so good and charismatic.
This really is a great love story. It's not exactly territory that hasn't been covered before, but it is a great adaptation on the coincidence affiar situation. Paris is a great backdrop, even if it is all a matte painting and flats. Placing this character makes you love him to the point of ignoring the fact that he's leading another woman on the entire film.
There are some moral ambiguities with this stories, as are with most affair / secrets storyline. An Amiercan in Paris is so well directed and shot and performed that even I, the stick in the mud, tended to ignore the adulterous relationships going on throughout the film.
There is one part that really concerned me though. The film has an amazing Red Shoes knock-off dream ballet to finish the film. It is stunning and, once again, is the reason most people watch the film. But with the last minute of the movie, it ends happily. (I'm sorry that I ruined that.) But there's only a minute and it is wrapped up far too nicely and neatly to really respect. Did original audiences pan the darker, sadder ending with the couple accepting responsibility to their significant others? I don't know. But it seemed far too neat and clean for me to really like.
Now this is me being the most closed-minded that I'll ever be in a Flixster review. I'm very used to the perfect Hollywood image. The main female lead in this movie is gorgous...but there's the tooth. The snaggletooth to stick out among a perfect face. She's an excellent dancer and has a fantastic accent, which is why they probably cast her. But I'm amazed that such an obvious facial distraction was allowed in a mainstream Hollywood film. I'm not complaining, but more amazed that she made it into this film. -
MCT:March 8, 2008
An American In Paris is a true classic, and one of my favorite musicals. Gene Kelly blew me away AGAIN with his singing and dancing. But the plot is also very good, and the ending is terrific.
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MCT:February 22, 2008
A s'wonderful musical! One of the best I've seen. HOWEVER, all the characters other than the main two are lacking in development, and the end (while awesome) left a lot of questions.
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MCT:February 8, 2008
Gene Kelly is just fantastic--charming, witty, and a great dancer. excellent Gershwin scoring and a real visual treat of a film. a little heavier on the dance numbers and a lot lighter on plot than I'm maybe used to, but it's still a classy film with plenty of humour and musical entertainment.
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MCT:November 25, 2007It rambles along. Two excellent scenes save the film (Ocscar Levant's concert and the final dance).
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MCT:August 27, 2007
Gene Kelly dances, Oscar Levant makes jokes, and at the end, we get Gershwin's masterpiece featuring both!
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MCT:August 14, 2007
If this film proves nothing else, it proves that telling Gene Kelly he can't actually film in Paris just pisses the man off and he makes the best frickin musical ever filmed to spite you.
Seriously, Gershwin, Kelly and Caron. You'd have to work HARD to make some thing bad out of that. -
MCT:August 13, 2007
This is grrreat! Leslie Caron proves to be the only person able to keep up with Gene Kelly's MAD dancing.
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MCT:August 5, 2007I had problems getting into it, and I'm still not sure why. The songs and dances were amazing, as they are required to be in a Gene Kelly film. I love Oscar Levant, who is one of the unsung talents from the classical era. Just something about this movie didn't work for me.
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MCT:July 30, 2007
I really loved the beauty and scale of this old MGM pearl, I'd just have wished that the Arthur Freed guy was still alive today to make such beautiful music. They don't make these films anymore ;)
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MCT:July 18, 2007
Oh dear...for an all time classic, I was very disappointed. Sure the song n dance routines were exquisite, characters were lovable but it just didn't absorb me. I couldn't drum up the interest, I couldn't get passionate.........
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MCT:July 10, 2007
Superbly lovely. Not better than A Streetcar Named Desire by any means, but adorable, cute, and endlessly entertaining nevertheless. Gene Kelly is simply godly in it.
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MCT:July 9, 2007
again with the tryin' too hard, mr. kelly...but sometimes to stunning effect in this celestial effort to give the yokels more than what they asked for and to get into the history books as well
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MCT:July 3, 2007
Brilliant. Gene Kelly. Leslie Caron. Oscar Levant. Nina Foch. Vincent Minnelli. and GEORGE GERSHWIN! I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise is amazing. And the final ballet to Gershwin's American in Paris suite is AMAZING. Kind of a tacked on ending...but a classic.
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MCT:June 28, 2007
2.5 without Gershwin's score. Buy the orchestral suite, conducted by Bernstein: you'll be glad you did.
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MCT:June 15, 2007
So many favorites of his to choose from but this one is high on my list. The dance sequence near the end was brilliant!
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MCT:June 1, 2007
Beautiful, well acted, an again, beatiful film... Although only partly as engaging and original as other musicals of the time...
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