Thursday, August 5, 2010

An American in Paris (1951) - 4 stars

One Sentence Plot Summary: An artist, a singer and a pianist break into spontaneous song and dance numbers around Paris; the Parisians seem to find this surprisingly normal.

Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron

Best of: Gene Kelly...man, is he fun to watch dance.

Worst of: I'll never be able to fully embrace the musical genre...get on with the plot already, people. It gets saved, however, by the fact that it is more of a dancical than a musical.

Notable: The 17 minute dance sequence that ends the film cost $500,000 and took an entire month to film.

Also Nominated: A Streetcar Named Desire

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