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.
蛮奇妙的，后期阿莫多瓦电影中的奇情越来越温柔、或者说越来越自然。首尾一再出现箭头，即方向，指向议题的两端，性别的、代际历史的、法理与生理的，明明背道而驰，又自发地汇成闭环。一组交织的平行线。
最后故事太“happy ending”了，说得太圆。中间一些拍摄手法（跳剪暗示时间的过去，这过去里是有信息的）体现出janis的坚毅很喜欢。关于微观和宏观层面“平行”并置“诚实的艰难”的讨论非常好。
看这个想到了可爱的骨头，那部剧真是挠心的难受。这部剧在灵能的加持下有了一个HE，最后凶手被杀的时候还是挺爽的
在我目前的概念里，阿莫多瓦的“好看”仍然是独一份的。可能再没有导演会这样拍女人，拍奇情，拍电视剧质感的狗血情节剧，也没有演员能像Penélope Cruz那样动人。
7.5/10，《平行老母》故事的内核其实是一场叙事的滑坡——🆘，连阿莫多瓦都在回归传统了！可见疫时代对人类社会的思潮改变之彻底。不信你在细品一下电影的走向：尝试重新定义母亲，但还是回归生理母亲；尝试重新双亲，但还是恋母情结的不恋母了、母爱回归男性；一群女性的遗孀在召唤着失落的男性。阿莫多瓦说出来的是“历史不会被篡改”，但他隐晦的反思却也是“传统不会消失”。“拥抱传统吧，就像拥抱母性的本能一样”这也许是阿莫多瓦最深处涌动的一个不敢言说的念头。
虽然电影中两条线的结合与阿莫多瓦之前的作品比显得有些生硬了，但仍然能看到许多天才的创作力的彰显，摄影师是留住记忆的职业，所以女主角之后执着地要揭开乱葬岗的真相，让记忆圆满，而在残酷的历史之外，她也要面多来自现实的情感的危机，平行的母亲不仅仅指的是现实中两个阴差阳错分离又重聚的母亲，更是逝去的母亲和母亲的母亲，阿莫多瓦在电影中刻画的主人公有许多他前作的影子，在自由之中抗拒着时间对记忆的劫持，她们要努力地找到真相，然后勇敢地直面真相，年轻一代已经逐渐忘记了这些，但当抢救记忆的工程终于展开时，我们也接近了阿莫多瓦创作中一以贯之的主题，那就是面对命运的玩笑和摧残，逃离远不是解决的方法，超越痛苦才是我们应该做的，和往事释怀的前提并不是赎罪，而是逼近欲望的深渊时，看到恐惧又不被恐惧吞噬的坚强
导演是想说：生命的寻根与生命的延续，缺失了任何一部分，国家史与个人史都不完整？可惜两条线硬拗得真拧巴，Janis放弃亲生女儿的动机也牵强，似乎纯粹为了铺垫后面的奇情戏码。倒是“母+母”的母系家庭构造，带点乌托邦式的愿景，显得尤为美好。岂止在生育、养育的过程里，男人百无一用，连性爱都可以请男人离场，女人之间自给自足。毕竟对男性，无论寄托爱情，或是寄托生活、寄托灵魂，他们都并非理想对象，仅停留在社会性的合作层面就够了啊。
现在谁还会要TA呢
Almodóvar自VOLVER以来最好的作品。
我比较吃惊的是发现抱错居然没想到找医院赔偿，毕竟咱中国人这种事也没少听，但这点其实阿莫多瓦处理得不错。
小男孩们很帅但是剧情也是真的有些一遍。电话通灵确实蛮不错的，但是拍出来的效果感觉很一般。而且这个掳童犯和小男孩之间的冲突感和压迫感几乎没有，有点致敬危情十日但是却又没有任何突出的感觉，只会觉得这个男孩除了不能出去外好像啥都可以做，而那个掳童犯啥都没有做一样。小丑回魂和危情十日和通灵男孩，我搞不懂这掳童犯把这男孩弄过来是干啥的，闲着没事干还是啥
在历史中消失的人不该忘记，掘根之旅被奇情故事打散在一头一尾略显薄弱，但奇情部分依然阿莫多瓦讲起来依然流畅自如且不尴尬，不过不是他最好的作品，整体有些拖沓了。
看这个想到了可爱的骨头，那部剧真是挠心的难受。这部剧在灵能的加持下有了一个HE，最后凶手被杀的时候还是挺爽的
愈合与撕裂，阿莫多瓦对女性从不施加道德批判，在以母性维系的情感联结展示其多样性后我也开始对早前产生的原生家庭认知动摇了，特别在自己走入了人生下个阶段的当下，震荡出极大的共情。
3/4部好戏，细腻悬疑，带着强剧情和风格化美术推动剧情，尤其是摄影美得像是CG特效，可到了最后两条故事线，把狗血家庭上升到家国大义以后，一下子破功了，真的太说教了。
这部还是典型的阿莫多瓦，但是加入了关于历史回忆的主题，还是不错的。
对于西班牙历史不太了解的我 是来支持阿莫多瓦和克鲁兹以及来看美女的…并从雅尼斯的公寓借鉴了一些装修点子😂
那条政治暗线和两个母亲之间的明线，始终是平行的，没有很好的串联起来，导致看的时候，感情也是割裂的。一般般吧。
全篇流露的女性之殇试图与历史的人文思考相联系，却显得突兀与割裂，狗血的剧情轮番轰炸，使得观感也变得怪异起来。冗余的堆叠失去了强有力的表达，对于两个母亲的交集，孩子的养育，微妙的情愫的升华还是牵强附会了些，不过特别喜欢女主的演绎和最后一幕的设计……
1.平行也会错位，母亲未必天然。2.历史的父亲揭露（uncover）湮没的遗存而确认，现实的母亲忍受（bear）失去的痛苦而释怀。3.5
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