Año: 1958 País: EE.UU.
Génreos: Comedia | Musical | Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Intérpretes: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Eva Gabor
Guión: Colette (novel) ; Alan Jay Lerner (screenplay)
Fotografía: Joseph Ruttenberg, Ray June
Música: Frederick Loewe
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Sinopsis:
París, 1900. Gaston, joven y millonario, se aburre a pesar de ser el soltero más perseguido de toda la ciudad. Gigi es casi una niña y se divierte a todas horas aunque todavia no tenga edad para bailes y amorios. Pero Gaston es amigo de la familia de Gigi y la visita con frecuencia. La abuela de Gigi ve en el cariño de Gaston una posibilidad y decide que su nieta ya es una mujer y por lo tanto debe empezar a pensar en casarse. Y, si es con Gaston, mejor. Pero Gaston tiene para Gigi planes que no son precisamente de matrimonio.
(FilmAffinity)
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Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a young girl raised by two veteran Parisian courtesans (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) to be the mistress of wealthy young Gaston (Louis Jourdan). When Gaston falls in love with Gigi and asks her to be his wife, Jeans is appalled: never has anyone in their family ever stooped to anything so bourgeois as marriage! Weaving in and out of the story is Maurice Chevalier as an aging boulevardier who, years earlier, had been in love with Gingold's character. Chevalier gets most of the best Lerner & Loewe tunes, including Thank Heaven for Little Girls, I'm Glad I'm Not Young Any More, and his matchless duet with Gingold, I Remember it Well. Caron's best number (dubbed by Betty Wand) is The Night They Invented Champagne while Jourdan gets the honor of introducing the title song. Filmed on location in Paris, Gigi won several Oscars, including Best Picture; it also represented the successful American movie comeback of Chevalier, who thanks to this film was "forgiven" for his reputed collaboration with the Nazis during World War II.
Hal Erickson (Allmovie)
Reseña:
Vincente Minnelli's Gigi was arguably the last great movie of the director's career and the last great musical made at MGM. It was an improbable hit in its time, and it is often denigrated as a poor relation of My Fair Lady, which, like Gigi, was the work of composer-screenwriters Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. In 1958, it had been five years since Minnelli's last successful musical The Band Wagon, and the genre was believed to be running out of steam at the box office. This project, based on a Colette story about a young courtesan matched up with a wealthy man, seemed unlikely material in the supposedly staid 1950s. But Lerner and Loewe's script downplayed the morally equivocal nature of the adults and the title character (without totally losing it) and wrapped the story around a score that drew on the richest melodic influences of My Fair Lady, which was just going into previews at the time. Gigi even inherited one song dropped from the stage version of My Fair Lady, and the score gave it the feel of a 19th century operetta, with the sweeping, melodic elegance of the Viennese tradition and the sauciness of its Parisian counterpart. It was Minnelli's enviable task to make all of this look beautiful, shooting partly in Paris (a privilege he'd been denied on An American In Paris) with a dream cast. The result was a movie that pleased audiences; got away with presenting a tale of prostitution to a general audience in a decade when the screen supposedly didn't even acknowledge the existence of moral terpitude, much less allow its heroes and heroines to have engaged in it (see Detective Story); and introduced a brace of superb songs that still play to audiences. Gigi was the last great score and script that Minnelli ever got to work with, and it is the last MGM musical that is essential viewing even for non-fans of Minnelli and the movie musical.
Bruce Eder (Allmovie)
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Otros ripeos en DXC:
* En marzo de 2003, chonclitos publicó aquí un DVDRip dual de 2 CDs.
* En febrero de 2004, Cal2_de_Sal2 publicó aquí un DVDRip dual monocedé.
* En julio de 2008, Garion publicó aquí otro DVDRip dual en un archivo de 1,45 Gb.
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