Someone knocks on the door. The sleeper wakes up, opens the door to trouble from her bed and takes the crack through a small paper bag containing croissants. Then he gets up, goes back the bed to the ceiling with the aid of ropes, opens the cupboard, pulls out a table and chair, looking left hand a cup and a knife in a drawer, taking his jacket in the closet right hand, he closed the drawer with his knee and turned to the table. So, voila, breakfast is ready.
This wonderful opening scene shows us that the American artist Jerry Mulligan lives somewhat cramped in the capital. But it also shows us that Gene Kelly, dancer and exceptional charge of the entire choreography of the film is able to turn everyday tasks into a feast of movement.
Jerry, remained in Paris after the Second World War, mostly painted but manages to survive thanks to money borrowed from friends, like Adam A pianist who has never yet been able to perform in public.
The film is a fairy tale that puts in brackets the constraints of everyday life.
Two women enter his life: Milo, who is interested and wants to protect his paintings the artist without a penny, and there Lisa ... Of course, Jerry will prefer to Lise Milo. Unfortunately, Lisa has another man in her life.
entire film is a feast celebrated by Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron as Kelly had discovered two years ago in a Ballet des Champs-Elysees. A celebration in honor of Paris bohemia, love and music. Music
immortal George and Ira Gershwin. Kelly sings "I Got Rhythm" in a wonderful duet with street children in Paris, during which they learn American English.
The film is also a celebration of storytelling: The film begins with three narrators who bring us into the story with their comments off.
sequences are visionaries inserted in history, like the time Adam dream of giving his first concert in which he is not content to sit at the piano and directing the other musicians, but also plays all the instruments of music.
At the end, the film definitely stands out in any known drama film concludes with a 18-minute ballet filmed in stereo whose production cost 500 000 dollars of the 2.7 million earmarked in the budget.
Accompanied only by music, without dialogue or songs, Kelly and Caron dance a mix of modern dance and classical ballet in Paris very stylized drawing of the world iconography of French painters such as Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Utrillo. Grandiose! Having been
designer and decorator, Vincente Minnelli paid particular attention to the decor of his films.
The first took place in New York October 4, 1951.
The film received six Academy Awards in 1952: one for best screenplay, best film, best costumes, best music, best picture and best art direction.
An American in California
The film was shot in the MGM studios in California.
Finally, two planes were shot with the city in Paris.
Gene Kelly realized the dance scenes that introduce Lisa Leslie Caron's character and the sequence titled "Embraceable You".
The film is a fairy tale that puts in brackets the constraints of everyday life.
Two women enter his life: Milo, who is interested and wants to protect his paintings the artist without a penny, and there Lisa ... Of course, Jerry will prefer to Lise Milo. Unfortunately, Lisa has another man in her life.
entire film is a feast celebrated by Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron as Kelly had discovered two years ago in a Ballet des Champs-Elysees. A celebration in honor of Paris bohemia, love and music. Music
immortal George and Ira Gershwin. Kelly sings "I Got Rhythm" in a wonderful duet with street children in Paris, during which they learn American English.
The film is also a celebration of storytelling: The film begins with three narrators who bring us into the story with their comments off.
sequences are visionaries inserted in history, like the time Adam dream of giving his first concert in which he is not content to sit at the piano and directing the other musicians, but also plays all the instruments of music.
At the end, the film definitely stands out in any known drama film concludes with a 18-minute ballet filmed in stereo whose production cost 500 000 dollars of the 2.7 million earmarked in the budget.
Accompanied only by music, without dialogue or songs, Kelly and Caron dance a mix of modern dance and classical ballet in Paris very stylized drawing of the world iconography of French painters such as Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Utrillo. Grandiose! Having been
designer and decorator, Vincente Minnelli paid particular attention to the decor of his films.
The first took place in New York October 4, 1951.
The film received six Academy Awards in 1952: one for best screenplay, best film, best costumes, best music, best picture and best art direction.
An American in California
The film was shot in the MGM studios in California.
Finally, two planes were shot with the city in Paris.
Gene Kelly realized the dance scenes that introduce Lisa Leslie Caron's character and the sequence titled "Embraceable You".
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