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Brigadoon

1954

Vincente Minnelli

Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart ...

7.1

4,221

Musical. Comedy. Romance. Fantasy Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, on a hunting vacation in Scotland, discover a quaint and beautiful village, Brigadoon. Strangely, the village is not on any map, and soon Tommy and Jeff find out why: Brigadoon is an enchanted place. It appears once every hundred years for one day, then disappears back into the mists of time, to wake up to its next day a century hence. When Tommy falls in love with Fiona, a girl of the village, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"With its lilting Lerner-Loewe score and great Kelly dance numbers, this is almost a Hollywood musical masterpiece."	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Overdone and not particularly tasteful musical stuff and nonsense. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"In transferring 'Brigadoon', a click as a [1947] Broadway musical play, to the screen, Metro has medium success. It's a fairly entertaining tunefilm of mixed appeal."	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"A classic - if not the classic - Minnelli musical, Brigadoon is an explicit statement about (and partial criticism of) the notion that an artist only lives through his art, preferring its reality to the world's."	POS
United States	Jeremiah Kipp Slant	"At least the dancing is good, and Vincente Minnelli’s restless camera gooses a plodding story into liveliness."	NEU
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"Probably the material was too precious and fake-lyrical to have worked in natural surroundings, either, but the way it has been done it's hopelessly stagey."	NEG

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