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.
看到最后才发现是悬疑hhhh
他把自己变成刺猬，不管外部怎样改变，他都坚守着另一个人所喜欢的状态，不敢丝毫松懈。可悲又可怜。
四星半。于无声处听惊雷，静默荒凉的风景与配乐映衬着人物关系，简坎皮恩太稳了！卷福和男孩的人设都非常迷人，互相映衬。百炼钢与绕指柔，内心特质过于极端，必以其反面矫饰之，一切都是隐秘的，克制的，欲盖并不弥彰。学文学的真的玩不过学医的。“我爸爸担心我不够善良，我太强大了。”——你爸担心的没错。
温吞乏力又无聊，还管这叫克制，根本就是没啥剧情又无趣，到是想放肆。硬塞个变态大叔的印象，45岁康伯巴奇也开始卖肉。要说细腻也比不过《断背山》，就这还全球拿到147个奖项246项提名，不仅仅是明星们老了，连评委和观众们也老了。4
克制又设计的。实际情况就是，菲尔成不了布兰科，彼得也不是菲尔。
哪怕知道你想说啥也未免太装逼了，耐着性子除了风光美也实在看不下去
剧本，画面，镜头都过于精巧工整了。所有的符号线索都留到刚好让你留意和看懂的地步。绝对适合观赏学习，但是缺少一些直指人心令人沉醉的生命力。
太厉害了，导演的掌控力和稳定力，有着超越性，演员们的配合也功不可没。看完以后浑身鸡皮疙瘩都起来了。新西兰的电影已经成长到这样的地步，也能反映新西兰较高的人文水平。对男性气质的犀利刻画，对不可抵达的同性爱欲隐藏。我也能感知到自己在性别学和女性主义方面的学识缺陷，这是一部太优秀的性别演绎文本。那些无法说出口的，只能去意会去观察的细节。炭疽病毒从牛皮而来，在水中入侵，他杀死了他，他死前还在念叨他。被轻视的，实则最强大。power来源于学识。打破了传统叙事当中，sissy boy的软弱形象。是一种新的酷儿电影书写。
节奏缓慢，不明觉厉。是一个女导演对大男子气概（machismo）阴恻恻的贬低和否定（？）意思是说一个蒙大拿西部牛仔，纯度最高的纯爷们，居然是个基佬，并且死于娘炮之手。类似于赵云身经百战却死于老婆的一根绣花针。
真tmd高级，除了有点过于卖弄细节和技巧，过于设计的精巧。小孩和卷福的每一次出场都是高潮。但是都说小说就是这样，我就能接受，而且膜拜。为什么要把世界留给那些个低俗的电影和观众，为什么要让大家都懂，这tmd又没有票房，也不是国产电视剧要为收视率和投资方负责！
明明知道男主是Benedict Cumberbatch，但就是好几次有错觉那是Matthew McConaughey。
在电影院看的。睡了三十分钟。虐女人虐烦了，又虐女人的儿子。
220326 - ……啊？……就，啊……？奥斯卡，没有足够的片子就别凑数提名了，放过我吧…………
【A-】
开头和结尾是在点题了，为了母亲的幸福可以做任何事情，让母亲（darling）远离“邪恶”（power of dog）。影片的背景竟然是西部牛仔片，壮丽的风景配合暧昧的同性情愫，让人不禁想到《断臂山》，但是唯美孱弱的少年背后藏着的似乎也是“power of dog”，逆耳的反和弦音乐也暗示了这一点，这并不是传统意义的同性电影。影片用中国老话改编一下便是：“小人报仇十年不晚”。个人认为美中不足的地方有几处：Phil对待Peter的态度转变太快，动机不够。Phil不够邪恶，甚至太过有魅力，死的时候让人惋惜。Rose临时起意，送印第安人牛皮，以至Phil对弟弟投诉Rose，使Peter下定决心，简单随意了点。
叙事都不能用克制来形容了，是藏着掖着，但看到最后再转回来看看开头独白也就全然明白了。音乐起了极大作用，当隐藏的秘密和情绪无处释放的时候，音乐也没能让你放开，它不是舒缓的而是加重不安的情绪，这种小心翼翼的逐渐加深的吊着的感觉一直持续到phil最后躺在棺材里才彻底释放。实在很累。除了配乐，本尼的表演同样精彩，完全契合片子气质，Phil与所有人保持着若即若离的状态，疏离又孤独，佯装坚韧又脆弱真诚，演技出色又未跳脱出电影本身。 Peter接住了本尼的戏，印象深刻。 【同性的标签很影响观影，因为你会刻意去探索寻找片中同性元素，反而忽略掉真正精彩的部分，同性可以不在标签里直接显露，而在观影中逐渐揭秘和体会才是最佳。 】残酷从来都不是直来直去的刀下鲜血，而是隐藏的秘密悄无声息地曝尸荒野。
高度克制的叙事技巧，纯粹，庄严，文学化，让整部电影蒙散着淡淡光辉。
惊喜一：没想到简·坎皮恩拿到今年第78届威尼斯电影节 银狮奖 最佳导演的这部《犬之力》竟然是同性题材的，配乐竟然是强尼·格林伍德制作的；惊喜二：克斯汀·邓斯特难得与她老公杰西·普莱蒙合演电影，而且片中两人的角色刚好也结为夫妻，另外Rose的儿子刚好和蜘蛛侠一样都叫Peter；记录三：影片给我的观影感受不如《钢琴课》来得强烈。温吞的叙事节奏，含蓄的情节发展，暗藏的细微线索，隐晦的影像表达……若不是外在条件辅助，我可能就看得失去耐心了。台词四：-Peter：你遇到了布朗科·亨利的时候几岁？-Phil：和你现在差不多大。-Peter：他是你最好的朋友吗？-Phil：他是。不只是朋友。他曾经救我一命。…… 结尾五：回眸一笑，细思极恐。
导演的《钢琴课》是儿时记忆中最震撼的存在，那种压抑之下的情欲展现充满了绵长的张力，而冲突累积到极致之后的爆发时刻让人难以忘怀。近三十年后，导演用一部主题类似的《犬之力》重回巅峰状态，只不过表现更加克制，调度更加精准。邓斯特和她酷似马特达蒙的老公继《冰血暴》第二季之后再续前缘，很难想象这个内心秩序逐渐崩溃靠酗酒来存活的女人，曾经还是蜘蛛侠的女朋友。卷福的演活了一个外强中干用虚张声势来在掩饰空虚的牛仔，值得一座影帝小金人。
克制又设计的。实际情况就是，菲尔成不了布兰科，彼得也不是菲尔。
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