SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

grauwulf24-85-731094 Are you kidding me! A 6.8 rating! This is aesthetically and craft wise one of the top 50 films ever, subjectivity aside. The rules and styles of the society in which the story takes place, and of the times of the filming may not be what they are now. Nevertheless, like Moliere or Shakespeare, or a Rembrandt, this is timelessly excellent.

jenniflower74 Costumes to die for (the iconic white dress!), set design that transports you to another world, music that will stay with you long past the end and a romance for the ages. What more could you ask for?

JohnHowardReid Copyright 1958. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. New York opening at the Royale: 15 May 1958. U.K. release: floating from July 1960. Australian release: 4 September 1958. 10,379 feet; 116 minutes.SYNOPSIS: A young girl in turn-of-the-century Paris aspires to marry a rich, handsome aristocrat.NOTES: Voting members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences selected Gigi as Best Film of the Year. The movie also won awards for screenplay, direction, color cinematography, art direction, costumes, film editing, music scoring, and best song ("Gigi"). The Hollywood Foreign Press Association named Gigi the year's Best Musical, while Minnelli carried off the Best Director award and Gingold, Best Supporting Actress. The readers of Photoplay magazine voted Gigi the best film of 1958. The movie came in at 3rd position in the annual poll of American and Canadian film critics and commentators conducted by the trade newspaper, The Film Daily. M-G-M production number: 1723.COMMENT: Although the number one reason to see this film is, of course, Maurice Chevalier, please don't deprive yourself of a glorious entertainment experience by attempting to see Gigi in any other format but CinemaScope. Director Minnelli has used the full resources of the CinemaScope screen with flair, taste and imagination. The movie is nothing less than a charming, captivating triumph. Miss Caron's fans will not be disappointed, while Louis Jourdan, a much under-rated actor, is not only as stylishly persuasive as usual, but sings his own songs with the same degree of effortless charm that Chevalier brings to his. Gingold and Jeans are also perfectly cast.

jbirks106 and what passes for a plot is ridiculous. I'd love to provide spoilers for this overrated movie but there's nothing to spoil. The songs are trite at best, creepy at worst, and ineptly dubbed. The acting is adequate, but a 27 yo. Leslie Caron trying to pass for a coquette is a real stretch. Chevalier is entertaining playing himself, but he's absent for such long stretches you forget what he's doing there when he returns.Speaking of, what do any of these people do? Bored bachelor Gaston is evidently rich enough to rent out an opera house every night for his suarees (breathlessly and ludicrously reported in every newspaper in Paris) yet has time to cavort in complete anonymity whenever the plot feels like it. He has enough money to buy off his erstwhile girlfriend's beau, solely for the purpose of driving her to yet another suicide attempt? I can't believe any of this makes sense even for fin de siecle Paris. I also can't believe it won 9 Academy Awards.