An overrated musical with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. 1951. Director: Vincent Minelli.
Jerry (Gene Kelly) is an american in Paris. He's trying to become a successful painter, and he's spending his time painting and selling his work, without any success. This doesn't make him too very sad, but he knows that he is very poor.
Jerry has a friend named Adam (Oscar Levant) who's a pianist trying to reach for fame and fortune. Adam knows a man named Henri Baurel (Georges Guétary) who's a singer.
One day, Jerry meet a sweet girl named Lise (Leslie Caron), who's in a relationship with Henri, but Jerry has no idea of that. Jerry and Lise fall in love, but Jerry's "guardian" Milo (Nina Foch) is in love with him and she's trying to make Jerry feel the same which causes trouble to Jerry's and Lise's new love.
If you like ballet, you'll probably like this film. I'm more fond of Gene Kelly's tap dancing, but there's not much of that here, unfortunately. All of the ballet makes this film boring, I think.
The long ballet scene where Jerry's dreaming about Lise, well it's so long that I almost fell asleep. I nearly forgot what film I was watching because the ballet scene was so long that you almost forgot about the real plot of the film.
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