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.
贾静雯太美了🥲 人物塑造和演绎的太好了 疫情的切入点很巧 隔离使人失常 不是一日之寒 却是压倒骆驼的最后一根稻草 比阳光普照更真实动人
虽然算不上是什么佳作，但台湾近年来这类型的片子拿捏的很好，本片前20分钟我以为会是一部比较温暖的亲情片，但越看画风越诡异，直到最后野外烤肉那5分钟，整个人都跟着剧情变得揪心了起来。贾静雯演失心疯还是挺让人发寒的。
我还是很吃这种路数。你脑中的瀑布，变作一场无预警泄洪将我淹没。不要再问你还好吗，我会努力变好，我们一起好好生活。Don‘t sweat it。
我的开年华语最佳。如此生活三十年，勉力维持的生活秩序被巨流冲垮。瀑布是遮蔽天空的蓝色围布，疫情吞掉人的感受力，于是她幻视幻听所有关于水的状态：从暴风雨到瀑布倾泻轰鸣到溪流深处。母女关系的转换也是一大优点，刚开始误导观众呈现一个有问题的女儿，最后利用幻觉的打破看见一个有问题的母亲。和解自然放在最后，但也是在父亲缺席下母女命运相依的一个渐进状态。极喜欢音效，看见蓝色瀑布倾泻而下，轰鸣震耳欲聋，人们很难抵抗暴风雨的侵袭。
女主的精神病人角色设定有种走“得奖捷径”的感觉，反而是王净的女儿角色，人物弧光和成长都更完满。
我还蛮吃钟孟宏这套的，细腻温柔丝丝入扣。以及这种级别的视听才是电影啊，很多电影真的只是长视频。
强行母女冲突就是无病呻吟，“为赋新词强说愁”也不需要拿疫情作为借口，比《阳光普照》差了不是一星半点，三十分钟弃 @Netflix
只有导演对视听的掌握力在撑着，不至于失控。但也仅此而已了。看得出导演在用一些意象 物件与镜头努力与阳光普照串联起来（甚至还有陈以文“驾照有没有考倒车会不会”梗），但这一次真的有差。
设立 魏如萱这种念大字报的角色，单纯增加了矫揉造作的不和谐。 所有的人物都用力过猛，脱离现实，但又不梦幻。
虽然觉得钟孟宏这几年多少有些过誉，但这部还是有些低估了。人与人，人与生活的点去打开人与社会的关系，只是功力不够。
放在钟孟宏电影序列里不算出色，但当成一部疫情电影看，相当别致。
场景太过精致，表演形式对白台词都有些许舞台感，就像疫情隔离一样，影片和观众之间也有了距离感。稍不投入，便让我觉得整个影片节奏松散，总想帮它使上一股劲。可能吧，疫情、疾病，都是让我们使不上劲的主题，只能承受。再次谢谢编剧在片尾对主人公的善意，不然我可能会气得生病。
真的有蛇，真的是瀑布。人生很长，和真正相爱的人度过就很值得。
可能与近期自身的情绪问题有相似性，对片中那种迟缓、近乎淤滞的时间触觉感同身受，共鸣在耳。急骤激流并不可怕，生活滩涂中深一脚浅一脚地朝前走，才最考验电量。捕蛇者说，今虽死乎此，比吾乡邻之死则已后矣，又安敢毒耶。钢筋水泥丛薄中，亦为捕蛇更易。
我的开年华语最佳。如此生活三十年，勉力维持的生活秩序被巨流冲垮。瀑布是遮蔽天空的蓝色围布，疫情吞掉人的感受力，于是她幻视幻听所有关于水的状态：从暴风雨到瀑布倾泻轰鸣到溪流深处。母女关系的转换也是一大优点，刚开始误导观众呈现一个有问题的女儿，最后利用幻觉的打破看见一个有问题的母亲。和解自然放在最后，但也是在父亲缺席下母女命运相依的一个渐进状态。极喜欢音效，看见蓝色瀑布倾泻而下，轰鸣震耳欲聋，人们很难抵抗暴风雨的侵袭。
至于略显“神棍”及突兀的结尾，我反而挺喜欢。当“瀑布”飞流而下时，那是病因得以确诊的时刻，同时也是治愈的时刻。女儿从湍急的河流里被救出，母亲也从瀑布笼罩的暗处被释放。
这绝不是导演过去电影的重复。强烈推荐观赏。截止2022年2月1日，豆瓣有4284人标记看过。
钟孟宏真是越来越生猛，好欧洲的电影质感。看久了大陆电影，差点真以为华语电影没希望了，台湾已经出后疫情现实主义佳作了友友们，我们还在正能量呀！
看他的片看的不多，有点像看了一部是枝裕和的片子，但视听上明显精致得多。
家是什么，什么是家。钟导继续封神中，好电影。话说前半段绝对是近年看过的最恐怖的电影，没有之一，贾静雯不愧是JM影后，毛骨悚然的质感。
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