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.
这种鸭子天价的吧？性其实没啥，吃饭睡觉和性一个东西，趁年轻，好好享受性吧！到老才来被开发新世界真的是一件挺悲哀的事情。（一定要正确并且全程使用安全套，无论对方是谁）
圣丹斯电影节总会带来惊喜。简单至极的电影场景，复杂的人物对话，以对白驱动故事发展，好像也多如牛毛，但这部片子有许多讨巧之处。女性导演在探讨女性内心，本身就很有看点。
3.5 全程都在脑补性转版Leo，Emma Thompson的表演当然是五星，但对女性最终依然需要靠男性引导才能取悦自己多少有点不适，另外亲子话题也稍微太多了。（Irish accent啊真是毫无抵抗力）
都说没什么好的女性向porn，看，这不就有了嘛
身体焦虑，性羞耻，更年期综合征……
Good luck, take care.
一场年轻人与老一辈人关于性方面的交流，从性进而延伸到整个人生。性是人生的一部分，同时也应该在人生当中永存，获得愉悦也是每个人应该有的权利。Nancy束缚在宗教的框架之中，惧怕接受未知的体验，认为性欲是罪，是一切破坏的源头。Leo无法面对自己的真实身份，厌恶过去的自我，对家庭感到自卑，渴望抛弃过往，展开一段全新的人生。四次会面，四次交流。谈话的内容虽然很多都以忘却，但不可否认的是，两个人都比从前活得更加有质感。不伪装，用真实、开放的心态去迎接这个世界，其实也没那么不堪。到最后，即使对方只是自己漫漫人生路当中的一个过客，没有被给予上帝般的救赎，但只要能够互相认同彼此之间的不完整，毫无遗憾地与之道别，就是与自己一场成功的和解。
professional是个很了不起的品质。小哥很帅。emma对着镜子拍肚皮很可爱。
Orgasm这个事…罗宾逊太太如果一开始找个富有经验的同性第一次就通关了……里奥服务精神五星，资本主义世界的好在于钱能买到圣人，各种意义上的。
最松弛的一刻，才能抵达高潮。于是对老年生活充满了信心
慢火煮酒，余韵悠长。
故事设定很棒，55岁寡妇点鸭子，四次见面，先谈天说地再上天入地。可是作为一部话痨电影来看，大段大段的台词太不精彩了，让我疑惑到底什么时候才到正题，什么时候才能不要说那么多废话。结局象征意义很大，解放欲望，解放身体，是很多女人的重要命题。
没想到这部具有十足深度的性话题电影居然是保守的英国佬拍出来的，想起了那句“与自己和解”。的确，当艾玛婶在镜前与镜中的自己坦诚相对，抚摸着自己臃肿褶皱的肚皮却淡然一笑时，我似乎明白了这部片子最想表达的东西。By the way，艾玛婶演技着实一绝，晚年能如此为艺术献身不得不让人佩服，反观内娱某些女演员露个背or替身就要炒作半天声称“为艺术献身”，拜托了请要点脸。
因为过分真实，老阿姨的紧张和絮叨看得人好累
美好的人，有幸遇到了美好的人。即使是“买-卖”肉体的关系，男性往往也是 lead 的一方，而女性也要经历一个艰难的、探索主体性的过程，并且很难将男性彻底物化，当作一个完全工具性的存在而加以利用，总是试图从中寻找某种深度的联结。
艾玛的独角戏舞台。从羞于认识自己的身体到最后对着镜子抚摸，一个女人对性欲的觉醒和探索，啊，几年前的我本人，而这无关乎年龄！
不会再为了情色而激动，只会为了情愫而悸动
Emma Thompson 无比珍贵独特的一次表演，戏外的她有多开朗多口无遮拦，戏里展现起对性爱的羞耻与自卑时就有多惹人怜爱。而即便在角色最 vulnerable 的时刻，她的表演也是那么 honest, generous & dignified。新人男主 Daryl Mccormack 毫不逊色，一双浅瞳大眼睛平静如水，映照女主的情绪并全盘吸收，how indulgent。几乎从未离开酒店的摄影和轻快顺滑的配乐是画龙点睛之笔。情节上觉得有趣的是，女主每次在性爱得到满足和解放后，本我都会膨胀得使她变得丑陋。Sexual fulfilment makes her so unhinged it's actually a very accurate observation.
这部电影就是一个fantasy.
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