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.
金敏喜这样比小姐里漂亮多啦！片子很好看啊！很客套吗？为什么我们总要怀疑别人的好意呢？到底谁更邪恶谁更虚伪呢？最后彩色有点难受，谁都想彩色一下……
书店老板和酒友是小说家的部分过往，女演员和电影学生是一种未来的可能。过往、现在和未来齐聚一桌，把酒畅谈。小说家也借此避开对不公现实（导演夫妇）的愤慨，就像她开头避开书店里的争吵声那样。最后短暂的彩色画面是小说家眼前一束光。
今天在Lincoln center的secret screening上果然看到了 等於是手把手教學洪式電影是如何製作的 很坦誠 也幽默感十足 / 觀影前的intro講到這裡面有金敏喜演藝生涯中最愛的鏡頭 很明顯 很恩愛 很動人 在愛中的小動物的眼睛
最奇妙的是，昨天出考場的時候我媽也給我遞了一束野菊花。
我怎么觉得洪尚秀最近几部片子从狠狠挤兑男的也开始挤兑女的了呢？
两星都给台词……
你要像猫一样好奇这个世界，同时又要像侦探一样观看她人，好的观众一定也是好的歌手，对一百种说出“我爱你”的语气熟稔于心。总之，要先修补好生活，因为情感的真相就是生活，每一帧转瞬即逝的语调、姿态、表情、动作，千万不要眨眼……所以影像的真相才不是叙述啊，而是一种诗的语言。
算是这几年来洪尚秀最轻松的作品了。公园散步借小说家之口说出最想说的话，小说家完成拍电影的梦想，一天之中见完老友，完成拍片却没能直接面对作品。彩色部分回到现实，现实的甜好过虚构的甜嘛？
只看我真正有兴趣的喜欢的东西，而不是我认为我应该喜欢的。
表象是创作力衰竭，进入瓶颈期后因一次重逢、一种偶然、一场会晤而顿生的灵感再现，这种灵感是创作者有意为之的、带有目的性的自我挖掘与试探，试图在灵感匮乏的时期以崭新的形式激活另一条思路。内核却是几次创作飞速蜕变，创作力只增不减，从文本到形式在细微处呈大幅变迁，神来之笔屡现，这种蓬勃的创作态势在其当下的阶段成为某种步入大师殿堂的证言。值得深究的是，在表象与实质内核间，文本用以反讽的作用以及其实际目的。连贯风格的同时，仍以令一般观众无法察觉的文本变化来隐藏其内里深刻的蜕变，从细微的变化中掌握叙事的主动权，在影像真实与否的疑问中传递超脱于一般电影语言所能给到的信息。色彩变化只为一束花，一个镜头特写只为纯粹的真实与烂漫。短暂的几帧画面把先前平整的叙事给打破，影像与现实进行互文，电影成为其收纳生活的艺术品
8｜谢谢Lim和FLC做这个pre-premiere！喜欢！charisma那段是自我致敬独立在夜晚的海边吧哈哈？感觉连金敏喜都很松弛很自由（为了花和金敏喜变成彩色的影像，好甜
将重复和变奏上升到了新的高度，也彻底扬弃了直男的视角。
很难评价，看完最直观的感受是：这也可以？但这既不算否定，也不算钦佩，或是认为其庸常，只是不知道该作何评价。依赖演员的表演，在极为日常自然的对话中偶有细腻的不动声色的乍泄的灵光，也能看到摄影机及其背后富有感情的视点，但又会怀疑，对于一部电影来说，这便足够了吗？即便洪在影片中，借着角色的对谈也在试图调侃，或者说，消解这个怀疑。介于成本和团队规模，能做到这种成色的创作，是太过随意的，但又是不简单的。想来想去，只能用“自由”来作评价，他可能拥有着许多人都希望拥有的创作状态，不受限制地将那些如日记一般私藏的情感和灵光表现出来，至于别人能共情与否，也许都不重要。
“写作曾经是很有趣的 但现在 我的写作太夸张了 好像我必须把一些微不足道的小事夸大成很有意义的事情 而我要假装成是那种总是能感知到这些事情的人 这是个沉重的负担 老实说 也很尴尬 很多年以前 我的感知似乎是很有意思的 甚至可以说是一种优越感 我也相信我所感受到的一切 所以一切都还不错 但我不再这样觉得了”
#72ndBerlinaleWeltbetrieb 本届柏林迄今为止最美好的观影体验。关于电影的电影，极度简约的固定机位景深镜头，洪尚秀让故事在独特的台词韵律中逐渐发生，感觉接着再看几个小时也不会腻。
洪尚秀借小说家之口说，他追求真实，只拍一些真实的电影，情节不重要。因为真实，电影里吉洙口中亲切的姐姐，也是一个会大声斥责员工的老板。粉丝会如何看待洪尚秀表现真实的电影呢？“如果是你的取向那会是很好的电影。”导演自信会是这样，事实也如他所愿。
导演是有多爱金敏喜这个演员，那种老去艺术家对青春的渴望，逐渐斑白头发，仍旧向她诉说着，心中的情书，成了一部电影。
很难评价，看完最直观的感受是：这也可以？但这既不算否定，也不算钦佩，或是认为其庸常，只是不知道该作何评价。依赖演员的表演，在极为日常自然的对话中偶有细腻的不动声色的乍泄的灵光，也能看到摄影机及其背后富有感情的视点，但又会怀疑，对于一部电影来说，这便足够了吗？即便洪在影片中，借着角色的对谈也在试图调侃，或者说，消解这个怀疑。介于成本和团队规模，能做到这种成色的创作，是太过随意的，但又是不简单的。想来想去，只能用“自由”来作评价，他可能拥有着许多人都希望拥有的创作状态，不受限制地将那些如日记一般私藏的情感和灵光表现出来，至于别人能共情与否，也许都不重要。
小说家，是电影的主角，她与人聊天，聊着聊着和演员搭上，她喜欢演员，突然想让她拍电影，拍出来的电影就是小说家的电影，看着只有聊天，但一点也不沉闷，对话很家常接地气，很好看
-You're so Pretty!ahhhh//评审团大奖//不如《引见》深入，但更本能、自在，既是一次自反，又给未来两人的创作埋下了伏笔…
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