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.
要說也是比較接近Terence Davies吧，怎麼一堆人提到《羅馬》？，2021.12.08
对生活在那里的那一代人来说是很珍贵的记忆。很小的叙事，最佳剧本与往届相比略有过誉
这片子真的是在过度戏剧性和闪亮的电影感之间来回摇摆，节奏乱的很。有的地方很有特色，有的地方让我看的很迷茫。
除了爷爷告诉小男孩，会有新的生活，新的朋友，不会有人嘲笑你的口音那里，稍稍被感动到一些，其余部分都无聊到要睡着。能激起背井离乡之人心中的一点点涟漪，但还远远不够。
就是一个van morrison的compilation。
连预告片都不用看，一看海报和片名就知道这片就是照着《罗马》拍的……那就没什么意思了。试图模仿和复刻别人的风格，让这部电影从构思阶段就开始失败了。
关于故乡的往事，形式感很强，但是剧作以及视听内核存在很大的问题，摄影和表演还可以，奥斯卡BP就比较难了。
不可，肯导的能力也就如此了，尽管私人情绪渲染够足够浓，但是太零碎太刻意的桥段铺垫让整部作品都欠缺了真诚感。老戏骨表现太好了，小演员有灵气。总的来说，比上（罗马、乔乔兔）不足，比下，也没有下让它比吧...给音乐加上一分。
属于那种没有多大野心，只是轻巧的讲述一场特定历史背景下的无奈离乡的小片。没有过度渲染悲伤和离别，欢乐生活还是占主调。片尾的音乐和歌声终于对了味儿，巴士离开街角后还是会让人陷入失落。
但最后还是让我感动
Oh Van Morrison. 工作日选择看这个完全是因为时长亲人，意外地挺喜欢的，黑白摄影虽然比不上《罗马》和《冷战》，但质朴的视角更显乡愁（也可能可以少做旧一些细节？）。童言无忌，童稚时无法接受变化，心碎的离开和道别，回不去的是旧日和故乡。
（爱你的家人会在离别时讲"go now, don’t look back.” 啊 我也好想奶奶:( for those who stayed, for those who left, and for those who are lost; 讨论搬家时其中一册booklet是start a new journey in Vancouver, 这些事都已两年了
拜托不要一言不合就播歌，这是在拍电影不是在MV合辑。段与段之间显得非常割裂。
Shedding tears in the theatre. Delicate, quiet, floating, and touching. Textbook-level shots and larger-than-life themes. Brilliant end and soundtracks.
奥斯卡里看到的最值得的一部作品了。
同时能明显感受到喜欢与不喜欢这电影的地方，故事很走心，这个原创故事很棒，是一本优秀的剧本使然。然而又能感到有目的性地过分炫技，太满当变得溢价。或是剧情转折快，有些东西立体了，有些又有点赶脚。但对于奥斯卡来说技巧多未必是坏事…（7.5分）
乡愁电影最重要的就是真诚，是如何让世界各地的观众为你的故乡记忆而共情。相比《罗马》的严肃与忧郁的女仆视角，《贝尔法斯特》明快且天真的孩童视角也不失为一种容易共情的叙事方式。配乐很舒服，柔和地切入贝尔法斯特的风景，后又进入属于回忆的黑白。Kenneth Branagh很有诚意地分享了他私人珍藏的童年回忆。
同样是家长里短的流水账，这片就显得高大上，父母育儿的教育闪光点最值得欣赏，这才是优秀的电影，再加上范老的插曲，登峰造极
不知道为什么很多人会不喜欢，私以为这是今年最有可能拿到奥斯卡最佳影片的作品。作者拍出了一个平实朴素的故乡，各种角色都非常鲜活，小男孩的甜美纯真可爱让人仿佛见到了童年的玩伴，爷爷教孙子去追女孩也让人忍俊不禁。而且台词动人且节奏非常好。不知道为什么大家要去和《罗马》比，导演的经历和路数本来就不一样，为什么拍黑白的故乡就要拿来比较呢？怎么不和《八月》比？不和《伊万的童年》比？我觉得比较的对象应该是和肯洛奇的《男孩与鹰》以及《这就是英格兰》这样的作品。依旧是英国工薪阶层对童年和故乡的挽歌。不足之处是有些地方音乐铺太满，而且最后的升华也有些刻意了，但映射到现实中的乌俄冲突之下，也许可以坐等拿奖。
没事儿就配流行歌曲的电影都不大行 弄成黑白也没有高级几分 如果不是喜欢英国文化和旧时代 看这片得多煎熬
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