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.
滨口龙介的命题作文，访谈中曾提及现实与超现实的结合，而这种魔力现实主义在这部影片里达到了高潮——尤其是最初的章节《魔力》，其奇诡的日常视角令人想起日本影像文化里那种「日常中的惊奇」。偶然拥有想象般的神奇力量，想象也可在偶然的瞬间以某种形态实现。
门，打开着就行；
为什么我看了一点感觉没有呢？只觉得无聊，确定是电影？
2＞3＞1；听闻滨口龙介短片拍的好，果然大师手笔；《魔法》简直就把当代男女之爱那层虚无缥缈的细纱捅破，赤裸的放在你的面前，暗流涌动；《再来一次》恰当点题，生命中漫不经心的一天偶然的相遇，沟通，颠覆，解构，重建，天马行空的创造出一个臆想的世界，使文本连接了现实与想象，消弭了昔日的心结，残酷的生活中饱含温情；《把门开着》更是以一种意淫去道德化的形式构建出了一个情欲空间，室内与门外视角相互之间流露出无穷的性风情，极富张力，但又始终保持着理智的距离，缓缓流淌出生命与性的感悟；一次看滨口的三部短片不可谓不过瘾，几乎全靠简单的对白推动剧情，又澄澈的阐明了复杂的人物关系，琐碎日常的情景下翻涌的是生活的真相，好比两个艺术家的交谈一定不是在谈论艺术，而是彼此诉说家乡的雨季和日落，故里的树上开什么花，结什么果。
三段式文艺电影🎦
特别喜欢从反转开始到贾玲最后任性的大哭。其实是很私人的电影，贾玲就是任性的想拍一部片子来怀念母亲。没有太多感同身受，但确实为她高兴。
为什么这么煽情可又觉得再自然不过。“你可能会爱上别人，但我做不到，和我在一起可能会让你的人生一团糟，但我还是希望你能选我。但我不能把这话说出来。”“嗯。”非常喜欢第三段故事，和第一段里男人和女人和女孩的对话，看的时候好紧张（即便男人有点像山寨版的小武。
自然捕捉，简单而深邃的对话。三段情爱，请对号入座。★★★★/8.1
看完电影急忙去搭地铁，在扶梯上特别注意了反方向的扶梯（结果是空无一人）。
第二幕朗读书内章节那一幕，全剧亮点，高端黄。第三幕两人两度互换角色，戏精附身。#20211023
偶遇太美好了 瞬间释放出来的光 可以让人回味一生
女人之间的爱因为相互理解而更深。城市清洁真的很重要，同样一场戏在我国街头拍不会有纯洁感。
被偶然撕裂的，让想象来缝合。第一话洪氏附体；第二话深重的宿命感有最大的回味空间；第三话互相承接记忆的失重填补彼此心里的缺口最为动人，又因这缺口与我的缺口链接，在她们的重新告白与名字唤醒中，我也得以置身“想象”获得短暂的模拟慰藉。二与三的剧作有魔法。9/10
视听语言和文学调性紧密融合，有的镜头很洪尚秀。2》1〉3
偶然是意料之外，是误会的捉弄。想象是主动性质，是现实的补充。偶然与想象，构成了我们生活中的微妙平衡，给原本沉闷的空间带入了新鲜的空气，甚至是赋予了人们一点诗意。当然，它往往不是浪漫的诗意，而是滑稽的诗意，能体会到的话，笑笑也好，笑笑别人，也笑笑自己，这样就不必认真埋头于人与人之间的关系，否则我们将窒息。其实日常的相对就是这般，轻巧中总有些难以言说的感觉。嗯，难解，辨不清真假，分不了错对，但可以假装重来。但，假如重来，在下一刻等着我们的，应该也还是我们当初的那些心思和选择吧。人是很难有真变化的。这么说，偶然就是必然了，而想象，也不过是欲望的写真。进一步说，生活嘛，我们不能不把它当一回事，但也不能太把它当一回事。因为，其实它就只是那么一回事。
像是一个没有耐心铺陈情节的小说家拍出的故事。还是自恋了点。
三个短片一部比一部来劲。
一部拉长的小品，我是因为马东在奇葩说上说他哭成狗去看的，结果，只能说真不是我的泪点。
4.5 - 在滨口的电影里生活总是不可捉摸地流动，一些明显的误会是技巧，但此后的湍流似乎没有规律，随着人性的明暗而跃动。最喜欢的是第二段，一种跃然纸上的情色，不可言说的欲望在毫无起伏的阅读里悄悄滋长，在反复进退之间打破了第四面墙，将文学、电影和角色/观众的想象混合在一起，成为非常高级的调情和暧昧。始终开着的门也成为对欲望的压制和反向挑逗，成为这场「情欲戏」最不落俗套的道具。第一段和第三段实际上也感触颇深，当我们意外由命运的一个位置挪到另一个事先没有想过的位置，对于命运的观看和选择也因此出现超越本我的角度，不一定要试图辨清哪一个才是「我」，而是发现与直视「我」的多种可能性。
我感觉自己就像是残次品/却遇到百分之百的女孩/你相信魔法吗/这让我很羡慕/奇鸟行状录/因为你可以遇见很多很好的书/她看起来是这样，不过实际上蛮横无礼/世界尽头与冷酷仙境/但我不能把这说出来/国境以南，太阳以西/你是我唯一的光/虽然记不起姓氏了
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