SnoopyStyle American ex GI Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) decides to stay in Paris after the war to be a painter. His neighbor friend Adam Cook (Oscar Levant) is a struggling songwriter pianist. Adam's longtime French singer associate Henri Baurel (Georges Guétary) tells him about a new young girlfriend. Wealthy older heiress Milo Roberts (Nina Foch) takes an interest in Jerry's art and Jerry himself. While trying to avoid her on a date, he starts flirting with Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron).There are iconic songs. The music is loverly. There is Gene Kelly dancing. This is a must for any song and dance fans. As a story and a romance, it takes awhile to heat up. Leslie Caron's character doesn't speak until after over thirty minutes. They need an early scene to develop more chemistry. It's not until their riverside dance in midpoint where their romance truly break through. That is probably the only minor failing and this is simply an icon that any film fan must see if only for the big dance number.

elvircorhodzic AN American IN Paris is very scenic and lavish musical. The film is amusing work that characterized stylized direction, luxurious and precisely choreographed dance routines and a good mood and dancing actors. The dance scenes, which take place in the scenery shaped by known artistic masterpieces of famous visual artists such as Van Gogh, Manet, Renoir, Utrillo and Toulouse-Lautrec, use the processed song of George Gershwin.The film is full of dance and song. The development and characterization is practically nonexistent. Even the romance did not get a chance, but through dance and song. Set design exudes a freshness and an explosion of color. The final scene of the ballet offers a deep and lasting impression in the film. Although, I have seen and much better music films. This is a movie about the dancing and lilt American, which is full of some strange extravagance, rich lady who is trying to buy the love of young and talented artists, pianists who experiences of scholarship, and here and there may be an ironic friend and seemingly unattractive and the dancing Parisian girl who captivates with cute face, a beautiful smile and a slight movement.To me, this is not enough. However, I felt the charm and magic, especially the last twenty minutes of the film. I have at times been enthusiastic, but mostly I was bored. I enjoyed mostly the music of George Gershwin.

rodrig58 If you're an idiot and you like films like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) or Suicide Squad (2016), you will not like this movie. You must be sensitive, artistic, to like music, dance, painting, arts in general and, in particular, to have been suffered in life, in love. Then you will understand this masterpiece, this little gem of film. Gene Kelly, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch are all very good. Unfortunately, they all are in another dimension where I do not know if they can make movies anymore... The only one who is still alive, is Leslie Caron, the least talented one. Overall, the film is very good, because of those first five performances. To be watched at any time. Watch all Vincente Minnelli's movies, he was a great film director.

Dunham16 Although director Minelli's work is generally considered Hollywood gold his experiment with an early 1950's dance oriented film won an academy award for best picture without translating well to millennium audiences today. Among the five leads Nina Foch was ill for most of the shooting, Georges Giuterry was a relative unknown in America, Leslie Caron and Oscar Levant became infamous as difficult to direct and Gene Kelly as the choreographer of a dance film was more a line boss than a performer on the set. The tap sequences are exquisite and there is a full performance of a one act ballet during the running time, all positives for dance fans. Despite Minelli's obvious talents shining through casting three leads who are not dancers in a dance film - Foch, Giuterry and Levant, gives the romantic leads, Kelly and Caron more to dance than to sing and does Caron really have a song in the film?