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.
还行，想看，影院没等到，等到优酷。张颂文，窦骁好评。
特别多的反转。范伟大叔很棒。片尾曲很好听。
楼下花园和筒子楼的构造以及营造的氛围，想起来，博尔赫斯，小径分岔的花园。
整部剧有一种剧本很老的感，起码是十年前的立项，不管从剧本的社会题材，（怎么2021年了还有人在拍贩卖儿童1.0版），还是从整个剧本的容量，剧本容量说实话放到剧本杀市场都得标个大大的新手本，15分钟就能讲清楚的故事。很多电影的故事都能15分钟拍清楚，但问题你这部片就是一个强情节叙事推动的，每一个反转后都在拖沓的对话，消解反转带来的惊讶。后面直线拉垮，最后起码几个翻都没翻起来，还挺可惜的。我感觉整体画面尺度很大，但是选材到处理极端保守，就有一种更割裂的感觉。
密室悬疑，黑色幽默，小说电影，算是国内类型里比较少见的整体很工整的代表，优点是人物关系多而不乱，层层递进故事时也比较连贯没那么多废话和铺垫
多线头，节奏稍慢，稍微有点绕，特别是外卖哥杀人那段，出现了两次，看的时候有点懵，还是得稍微思考一下，在恍然大悟上不那么流畅，话说回来，能有这样的片子不容易啊。
整部剧有一种剧本很老的感，起码是十年前的立项，不管从剧本的社会题材，（怎么2021年了还有人在拍贩卖儿童1.0版），还是从整个剧本的容量，剧本容量说实话放到剧本杀市场都得标个大大的新手本，15分钟就能讲清楚的故事。很多电影的故事都能15分钟拍清楚，但问题你这部片就是一个强情节叙事推动的，每一个反转后都在拖沓的对话，消解反转带来的惊讶。后面直线拉垮，最后起码几个翻都没翻起来，还挺可惜的。我感觉整体画面尺度很大，但是选材到处理极端保守，就有一种更割裂的感觉。
视听语言太差了。整个片子都在筒子楼的封闭场景里拍摄，把视听的问题放大了，直接剥夺了闭环叙事里抽丝剥茧的乐趣。
低于期待，还行但总差点意思。嵌入式反转全靠闪回显得重复拖沓，设定不巧妙转折略生硬，好几处完全是为了圆而圆，后来强行拐到小孩拐卖上面顺势打了亲情牌实在是有点偷懒。喜剧点不够，悬疑部分更别说了，不过选角确实还算可以。
还是挺好的。一出小品式的黑色幽默。黑色喜剧元素，悬疑元素，动作元素都齐了，整体故事套路上并不很新颖，也没做到特别流畅，但也大致能自圆其说了，一波波转折层出不穷，草灰蛇线的线索也铺垫的比较足。剪辑上还不够好，欠点火候。表演上真的是挺不错的。范伟的表演还是一如既往的亲民有层次。影片后半段孩子们一出来，一下子主题升华了，让人有点感动，不错。
整体挺好的，可惜中间看睡了10分钟
剧本耐不住推敲，手法又显得露怯，文本精细度和调度精巧度都不够，以至于不停的闪回反转随着手法的重复愈加疲软无力，这种片子放在十五年前很酷很潮，现在真的很土很low。范伟的口音梦回偏春晚小品，窦骁跟范伟搭的时候有种刘老根大舞台上临时组合演德云社的即视感，张颂文无功无过不值一提。看完只觉得，明明一个人满为患的老式小区为什么被编导设置得这么真空，几个天井俯视都没有人烟，跟老张交易时候领这么多孩子进小区不怕监控和邻居，一群人在屋里打闹摔东西没人报警便罢，都特么冰箱爆炸了还没有邻居第一时间报警，真是高估这种老式小区的隔音并低估邻居八婆的没事儿找事儿能力了。
密室悬疑，黑色幽默，小说电影，算是国内类型里比较少见的整体很工整的代表，优点是人物关系多而不乱，层层递进故事时也比较连贯没那么多废话和铺垫
最后那个医院手环的暗示竟然不是说明小女孩是主角的孙女
为了看B站上导演的拉片，去了电影院，很惊喜。
如果褪去喜剧元素做成纯悬疑片效果会好很多。架势和悬疑氛围是可以的…
2.0 / 几乎每一帧都看出了“我想与众不同我想技惊四座”的野心，就是真的很无趣。里面的黑色幽默也很无趣。一些青年导演真的不必“为了做点什么而做点什么”。
整体框架其实还是很有意思引人入胜的，但太多让人出戏的内容了。猜想是编剧赶deadline没时间给糊弄了，不然能给四星
每一次回溯就是新人物出场开始陈述自己的经历 dm顺便发达发线索 几乎每个人都有罪 最干净的往往到了最后才公布隐藏的秘密 一开始以为最坏的有可能是个好人 看着到也不太新鲜了 还有很多bug 为什么着火了没有邻居报警救火 火又是怎么灭的 然后那个买家 能赚回来钱吗...
一个尴尬的“罗生门”式故事，导演给众多的出场人物刻意安排了复杂的背景和各自的心怀鬼胎，然而强行的多重反转，让本就脆弱的主线更加拧巴和无趣。
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