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I don't know I am definitely not the target audience and would never go see a performance done by these kind of performers, but I wouldn't go see ballet, or opera either so I don't know.
One of the most pleasant surprises of this early 3-strip Technicolor short was that a ballet dancer that appears here was named Maria Gambarelli!
For those of us who are part of the real world of ballet - this film is completely ridiculous.
Ivan Kirov was basically a gymnast, not a ballet dancer.
I saw this film at age 14 and at that time, never having seen a ballet, I was very impressed.
I couldn't believe how naive Hollywood could be about the world of ballet.
But it was made in the mid 40s, before The Red Shoes or The Turning Point, the latter giving a true picture of the ballet world.
I mean, in a realistic world, she would NEVER have gotten into that ballet repertory...
Her busybody mother was obviously only necessary to further propagate the illusion that ballet companies are evil monsters ready to snatch your poor, innocent, young girl from your grasp, with an ever present, biting artistic director/villain.
The aerial shot where the crowded ship pulls away from the equally crowded dock is a masterpiece as is the scene where the two lead characters flirt on deck--almost a ballet and sexier in its suggestiveness than so many more explicit films these days.
I used to do ballet and this movie made me want to continue it.
As the mother of this obviously brilliant and muture beyond her years young girl, Sarandon alternates between being the mom and being the child with the ease of a ballet dancer.
The CGI images are great to watch, the humor is good, and the ballet portrayals are excellent.
Love" is one of the movie's come-ons.As she is played by the most uncommon Miss Catherine Deneuve he is scarcely pushing the envelope there.Miss Deneuve has a profile to die for and we see rather a lot of it,particularly in the sequence set at the ballet.
Now I love ballet as much as the next man,but this sequence does seem to go on for an excessive amount of time,a more cynical critic might consider it to be "padding".
The end of the movie has horribly over-long ballet sequency, which naturally has no real relation to the story of the movie.
Hardy is funny as the prancing lead of a "London Bridge" dance, surrounded by 20th Century Fox starlets, while in the next room, Laurel teaches the beginners ballet while wearing a ballerina outfit.
The ballet scene in the film's beginning is especially ludicrous.
The opening number in the play "I Hope I Get It" shows all of the dancers doing a jazz and ballet combination and then people get eliminated.
The one dance sequence is a little weird too with Nanette doing this weird ballet stuff with pin-up girl imagery superimposed on top of her.
I'm sure people in the specific business of ballet choreography find this production impressive but from a purely theatrical perspective I found everything from design to choreography to be lackluster and unbefitting of a "motion picture".
The closing ballet is claptrap for the intellectual crowd, out of place and in the wrong movie.
'Its a painting.....then put it in a gallery', 'it's a ballet.....keep it on the stage then'.
The Nutcracker has always been a somewhat problematic ballet.
The best part of An American In Paris is the lengthy ballet sequence at the end, where Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron are the living personification of several major painters.
Kelly was at his best here - it's a little different to Singin' in the Rain, and the effect of all the film as one topped with the ballet gives it a definite wow factor.
The problem with "Flashdance" is that there was only one break dancing scene and the rest was jazz dance and ballet.
The American in Paris ballet, but there is a good happy ending.
The rest of the cast is wonderful, as is that stunning ballet troupe.
Miss DeCarlo's starring debut has everything the writers could come up with -- from the Franco-Prussian War to the US Civil War, the great American West, San Francisco in its heyday, ballet, opera, vaudeville, stage coach bandits, and a Chinese junk.
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