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Film · 1951 · Romantic musical
An American in Paris
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
1951
★ 6.0 editorial score
It ends with a seventeen-minute ballet and no dialogue, staged against sets copied from French painters: Gene Kelly and Vincente Minnelli bet a whole musical on one uninterrupted dance.
“An American in Paris is a tribute to George Gershwin. Even though the composer died 14 years before the release of the movie, his fingerprints are all over it...The tone is light and whimsical and the story, reportedly dashed off by screenwriter Alan Jay Lerner in almost no time, is paper-thin. An American in Paris is more about mood, dancing, and singing than it is about plot and character.”
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