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Dr Jacques COulardeau


Last Updated: 11/17/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Married
Age: 64
Sign: Aquarius

City: OLLIERGUES
State: AUVERGNE
Country: FR
Signup Date: 12/27/2006
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 

Current mood:  depressed
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Absolutely disappointing. A dreamlike fairy tale in a eugenized hygienic "Paris", if that is Paris. It takes more than a back drop with the Eiffel Tower to be in Paris, not to speak of the Cathedral, or should I say the cathe-droll?

GENE KELLY – AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

Another film I had never seen and that had become a myth. For the time it was a pretty good film with a lot of dancing, a small lot of singing, a great lot of romanticism, divided loyalties, but no jealousy, just love and gallant attitudes: better yield to the love of a lady than to marry her out of some forced gratitude. Then a sprinkle of French and good nice spots in Paris. A good touristic vision of that Paris that has probably never existed. and there we are we have a fairy tale in a satin shrine, but life is so much more different. Americans and bubble gum. The kids and everyone loves them. A real dream on and in a cloud. And yet it is charming even if with the charm of an absolutely surreal and unreal vision. In other words it is a perfect musical for Broadway, and that kind of show is perfect on a stage, and on a stage it is too often acted. The big gigantic staircases going down to the embankments of the Seine sound like some wooden sound stage because they are a wooden sound stage. It would have been so much better in the real setting. But I guess no camera or cameraman ever set one tip of a foot in Paris. That’s what I regret about this mythic film: it does not carry nor convey the feeling and smell of reality. But a rather funny entertainment if you like forgetting about the real world.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID

So get on a plain plane and come and taste the good Parisian beggars, the good Parisian pickpockets, and in the hotels the good old Parisian fleas. Most Parisians are flea-bags camping in a flea-market and eating big macs.

Have a good night

Jacques
Currently listening:
An American in Paris (1951 Film Soundtrack)
By George Gershwin
Release date: 1996-07-16
9:02 PM
 
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