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Gigi

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Gigi

1958

Vincente Minnelli

Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold ...

6.8

7,445

Comedy. Musical. Romance Gaston (Jordan), the scion of a wealthy Parisian family finds emotional refuge from the superficial lifestyle of upper class Parisian 1900s society with the former mistress (Gingold) of his uncle (Chevalier) and her outgoing, tomboy granddaughter, Gigi (Caron). When Gaston becomes aware that Gigi has matured into a woman, her grandmother and aunt (Jeans), who have educated Gigi to be a wealthy man's mistress, enjoin on him to become her ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Abel Green Variety	"Replete with taste from its sartorial investiture to the ultimate histrionic performances."	POS
United States	Kate Cameron New York Daily News	"The direction is excellent and Freed is to be congratulated on the production as a whole, as the story is presented in an original and enticing manner."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"While their score often falters, Vincente Minnelli's mise-en-scene does not. It's easy to drift away from the story and become absorbed in Minnelli's impossibly delicate textures."	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Brown Time Out	"The dominating creative contribution comes from Minnelli and Cecil Beaton (...) The combination of these two visual elitists is really too much (...) The cast tries (with unfortunate success) to be more French than the French."	NEG
United States	Peter Bogdanovich IndieWire	"Pretty but hollow version of the Colette story, with uninspired Lerner-Loewe songs, and not particularly likable actors"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tony Sloman Radio Times	"Rightful winner of nine Academy Awards (...) this is the last great musical from genius producer Arthur Freed (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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