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.
这部要和《从不，很少，有时，总是》对照着看，同一个题材，不同时代不同国家。
补标#SGIFF。只有一幕直面的血淋淋但是痛感直冲每一根神经。
直面疼痛 不做任何粉饰和切割
第一次看这种题材的电影，我一个大老爷们儿跟着揪心，感染力足够了，画面简单而唯美，白天黑夜的明暗分割直指内心煎熬和外表强作镇定，希望这是最后一次看这种题材了，女澡堂子除外。
“一种只攻击女性的病，使她们变为家庭主妇的病。”
在她身上找不到一丝懦弱和妥协，而恰恰这种特立独行的气质，形象折射文明对垒蛮荒的艰辛，以及蛮荒泯灭和扼杀人性的漫长人类历史。那几幕只用现场采音的生疼戏份，共情满满。这部佳作可对标罗马尼亚《四月三周两天》。
堕胎戏拍得不少了，这部是主角跟随镜头，加上好几场相当认真的真心那啥痛的戏，应该是想将重点放在女主的这一路堕胎犯罪路走下来的心境变化。说真，痛是真痛，现在想起来我都抽抽，那心境体会还差口气。
2.5。一部完成度很高的主旋律喜剧科幻，最令人担忧的是卖座“大片”逐渐与主旋律电影画上等号，让类型退居次要，甚至可以轻易地抛弃真情实感。它缺乏一种商业类型片应有的观影仪式感，本来片头片尾动画是加分项，却硬要耍一些不搭边的互联网式小聪明（某站进度条？）。这种从外向里而非从里向外的创作方式让电影显得不踏实、华丽空虚，就像影片打光一样明亮且塑料。
在这个时代，面对着男权制下的压迫与宗教剥削（就像前段时间的一位…
太难受了，太疼了。这样的故事被如何反复书写和呈现都不为过，你看到的可能只有几部相似框架的电影，但曾经有那么多女性没有选择，被迫接受意外怀孕带来的绝望，放弃了自己的人生，被写进故事的是那些顶着丢掉性命、进入监牢的风险活下来的人，只为更多女性觉醒的可能。“时代感不够”分明是导演希望达到的效果，因为我们向前走的根本不够远，影片中的一切仍在发生。
但电影之外的社会现实更是让人痛苦，在全球各地广泛的限制堕胎法规，宗教威权下对女性自由的迫害………对女性权利的限制从未停止。而电影更像是一次记录，不是对那些争取平等权利的女性的歌颂，而是将“正发生”的苦难展现出来，镇痛。
摄影机一刻不离地抓紧人物 在特写和跟拍中描摹出人物轮廓 不再对前因后果做出一些赘述 而是直奔主题地聚焦于事件的整个过程 甚至以固定机位下直观还原出的疼痛来反馈给观众 其实是蛮感性的女性视角 哪怕背景设置于压抑黑暗的年代 最后仍然落脚至文学去有力地给予希望
我看的太难受了 女孩太难了 非常法式的高强度的跟拍特写镜头前仿佛亲历一场堕胎 特别喜欢阳光下陷入沉思的各种片段 太感同身受了 没错 发生在60年代的法国 如今依然“正发生”
The illness that strikes only women and turns them into housewives. 这个定义太精准了！虽然两场戏几乎都没有任何让人不适的镜头，但看的时候真是汗毛竖起，让人倒吸冷气，太疼了！电影从头到为都以女主角为中心，要么是面部的近景特写，要么是紧紧地跟随着的长镜头，让我感觉真的融入了这个女孩的身体里，从头到尾体验了一遍每个女性都可能遇到的切肤之痛。标题太契合，Happening，从六十年代末期的法国，到现在的美国，这件事一直都在发生，这个世界真的没有对女性多好。
诚然，此类题材的影片再多多少都不会嫌多。但仅从电影艺术的完成度及表现力谈及，本片拿下金狮多少有些过誉了。大概场外因素加了很多分，而且还是女性导演。横向对比，在近几年的金狮奖中，摄影比不上《无依之地》，剧本比不上《罗马》，技术比不上《水形物语》，纵向对比，从技术、摄影、表演、剧本等方面切入，更是逊色于《犬之力》、《上帝之手》、《暗处的女儿》等一众影片。除去题材，整体实在乏善可陈。
电影之下的故事即使相隔近六十年，但所有关于此的抗争、影视化改编与法理思辩都在持续不变地上演着；既是持续不断的讯息传达，也是探究绝境之下所面对的挑战与来自周遭、近乎窒息的“系统性恐惧”。与昨天刚刚完成的《珍妮热线》，是行进在截然不同的方向；所以即使层出不穷，每个故事都拥有独特的意义。以数个时间线划分的故事简单、直接并且指向震撼画面所造成的耸动，可以说文学、大学以及对话之中的政论些微陈词滥调，但它也拥有了自己的声量。
电影之下的故事即使相隔近六十年，但所有关于此的抗争、影视化改编与法理思辩都在持续不变地上演着；既是持续不断的讯息传达，也是探究绝境之下所面对的挑战与来自周遭、近乎窒息的“系统性恐惧”。与昨天刚刚完成的《珍妮热线》，是行进在截然不同的方向；所以即使层出不穷，每个故事都拥有独特的意义。以数个时间线划分的故事简单、直接并且指向震撼画面所造成的耸动，可以说文学、大学以及对话之中的政论些微陈词滥调，但它也拥有了自己的声量。
什么病？一种只会攻击女人的病，让TA们变成家庭主妇的病。
没有经历过就没有感同身受，电影为了视觉冲击，采取手提和近景，很考验演员的功力，不过不是金刚棒不揽瓷器活，主演实在是太敬业了。
第78届威尼斯金狮奖！以关注女性个体的苦难，来映射社会性的压迫感。可视的艰难与痛感，导演技法流畅规整，女主角表演亦不逊色。
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