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.
是不是看到了我们的未来。
1931年，彼时32岁的雅各布·法比安死于溺水，在他的小本子上写着“我要学会游泳”。
世界是混乱的，而生活还算值得。法比安淹没的湖面上有蜉蝣爬过，那是一种生命短暂的昆虫。我想到中国古老诗词里曾说过的，蜉蝣朝生暮死，而尽其乐。
“我热爱生活，但也逐渐在失去生活。”他叼着烟，跳入河里，阳光灿烂，是个极好的天气。2022.3.4
全片充斥着碎片化但却温暖的情绪，事业、友情和爱情的不幸在导演的处理下都显得不太冷酷，试镜时的独白，les酒吧里和好友的轻轻一吻，咖啡馆对峙时女孩伴着Ombra Mai Fu落下的泪水，以及山雨欲来前返回家中和父母共享平静的幸福。
完全靠对话推动的惊悚感，轻巧的语言与其背后地狱般的处决场景，一千万人的痛苦与死亡，更多人的信仰与价值的崩塌，二十世纪最骇人听闻的惨剧在短短几小时的会议上被敲定，人类实在让人不寒而栗。
从影像来说，就just so so，给个三星的原因真的是有警世作用的还原，但不如真的就索性更真实一点的来个纪录片。
前半部分很琐碎，经常切换镜头的处理方式让我有点不适，难以进入状态，后半部分渐入佳境，慢慢展现出德国1941那个慢慢抛弃理性和良知、走向疯狂和堕落的时代，学不会游泳的法比安于是就成为了一个“不合时宜的人”，对今天生活在此地的我们也许颇有共鸣
“生活是最有趣的一份工作”
一战后迷茫的一代，面对经济萧条国体崩坏创伤记忆纷繁踏至，我不知道怎么面对这个时代，正如法比安在那个时代的无所适从。一切和当下如此相像以至于我常恍惚于历史重演的荒诞喜剧。表现手法新颖独特，将如此现代的手法用在这么一个故事背景下不仅不违和还使魏玛共和凶猛复苏。太好了，只是法比安死得太过仓促，像是书写那个时代的纸张上可有可无的逗号。人如草芥，我想起《中国姑娘》里的台词“我们是错误时代里的不幸情人”。
布拉德死后 法比安打开遗书的信封 先看到一摞钱 手迟疑了
该片通过二战前德国魏玛共和国一个年轻人的日常，展现了那个时期德国的人文风俗、世态炎凉。文学青年法比安的人生最后一段时间与这个国家一起幻灭，故事发生时，主人公寻找着生活的幸福和社会的安定，有着美满的回忆，但是最后，他的工作因为动荡的社会丢弃了，他的爱人被权贵阶级拉去拍电影了，他的朋友因为论文辅导的教授受到政治分子的威胁，而没有通过，最后自杀了，他自己最后在准备奔向幸福时，因救人而溺死了。一切好像看上去都是个人的遭遇，其实是和整个社会即将动荡而崩溃，是有密切关系的，这是一个大的时代背景下，一个小人物的悲剧故事。
· 太浪漫了！Tom Schilling小天使又出演了一个惹人掉眼泪的角色。
我的欣赏水平不足以看懂，我只想说：拍得什么东西，太琐碎
一场如何优雅的杀死杀光犹太人的会议，他们内心已经到了毫无波澜的地步！
分了几天才看完，前一个小时确实不明所以，一度想弃剧，这片有点像扎卡，喜欢的人喜欢，讨厌的人巨讨厌。“不管怎样，生活是最好的工作”
所有的现代议题都带到了: 享乐，无聊，困顿，自杀。但又有一股诗意贯穿其中，爱，写作，亲情，勇敢。
很久没有半路弃一部电影了 实在受不了 所有的乱七八糟。
德国人精细严谨的特点被表现得很好
道德上的计算与算术是不同的。
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