I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Redundant and unnecessary.

Powerful

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Life, Love, and Art all collide in Paris!A young painter and his friend (mostly unbeknownst) fall in love with the same Parisian young woman.The music, the dancing... All of it is top notch!The only movie Gene Kelly won an Oscar for! He did the majority of the choreography and directing of the dance numbers.

I write this, not so much as a film fan (which I very much am), but as a classical musician. I was in my early teens when I first heard GERSHWIN's "American in Paris" and have loved and admired it ever since.If you grant the film the conventions of that era's movie musicals, it's a stunner. I want to note the difference(s) between how the Gershwin SONGS were handled versus how his CONCERT MUSIC was handled. Songs in musical shows were almost never used without extensive modifying by arrangers and orchestrators other than the composer. His pieces composed for concert situations (the first of which was "Rhapsody in Blue") I think demand and largely deserve a different approach.Two of the concert pieces were used in the film. The first is the third (last) movement of the Piano Concerto for Oscar Levant's dream sequence. I haven't listened again to another recording to verify this, but I'm confident that that movement was used without any alteration. Also, to get technical about it, specific shots of Levant playing might not have used the soundtrack made in that specific shot, but Levant had dazzling facility and surely played every last note that we hear.As for the big ballet finale, only about two-thirds of the music comes directly from GERSHWIN's "American in Paris." My hunch is that Kelly made requests of the brilliant musical staff and decided to switch chunks of the score, played material again that Gershwin did not, re-orchestrated some passages, and even added completely new material to suit the choreography. I can't watch the otherwise superb ballet without wincing at various musical moments, therefore only 9 stars.

Somebody actually gave this a "one" for a rating. A movie with incredible dancing, the music of Gershwin, the premier of Leslie Caron, and some of the most interesting graphic stuff for its time. I always preferred the dancing of Fred Astaire to that of Gene Kelley, but that's no indictment of him. I do admit he is a bit stiff as an actor, but this movie is a way of providing us with a visual presentation of Gershwin's amazing music. Like so many of the musicals of its time, it is short on plot. The characters are contrived and put there to sing and dance. Still, put that aside and enjoy the moment. Take a look at the musical choices. The Gershwins are the American masters. If all that was written was "Rhapsody in Blue" it would George immortal.

It's ironic that "An American in Paris" features US citizens speaking glowingly of France. Half a century later Donald Rumsfeld called it Old Europe when Jacques Chirac refused to help the US invade Iraq. Of course, France wasn't without its own misdeeds. Anyone who's studied a little history knows that the French were merciless to the Algerians, and tortured Algerian prisoners during Algeria's war for independence.But anyway, the movie is unpleasant to watch, knowing that Gene Kelly was twice Leslie Caron's age. Seriously, their relationship comes across as statutory rape. If you've read my reviews of musicals, then you probably know that I watch them for the purpose of heckling them like Mike, Servo and Crow do to the crummy movies that Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank send them on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". Most of my comments during "AAiP" are not ones that I'll be allowed to repeat in this review. I will, however, say that the 16-minute dance sequence at the end looks like something that they came up with after eating too much sugar. A lot of people would probably call it an acid trip.One thing that I noticed was the appearance of Hayden Rorke, best known as Dr. Bellows on "I Dream of Jeannie". My satirical explanation of his appearance here is that Jeannie accidentally blinked him to Paris, and so he calls his wife and says "Amanda, Maj. Nelson has somehow sent me to Paris! There's bound to be a conspiracy at work here!", causing mass hysteria in Coco Beach, leading to an accidental launch of a rocket. Oh Jeannie, will you ever learn? Long story short, this is not a movie that I can take seriously, and it didn't deserve Best Picture in a year that gave us "A Streetcar Named Desire".