Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

jenniflower74 Costumes to die for (the iconic white dress!), set design that transports you to another world, music that will stay with you long past the end and a romance for the ages. What more could you ask for?

jacobs-greenwood Of all the films which won the Best Picture Oscar, one has to wonder how this ho hum musical earned all nine Oscars for which it was nominated. Was it just a weak year or did The Defiant Ones (1958) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) cancel each other out as well? It's a mystery. Director Vincente Minnelli, the Original Song "Gigi", its Musical Score, and Adapted Screenplay were among the other Oscar winners. Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, and Louis Jourdan star.Gigi (Caron) has been raised quite innocently by her Grandmother Madame Alvarez (Hermione Gingold), with whom she lives. Alvarez didn't do as well as her sister, Gigi's former courtesan Aunt Alicia (Isabel Jeans), who lives in high style but (per her vanity) never leaves her expensive flat with butler (e.g. setup for life by former lovers).However, Alvarez is friends with a rich playboy Gaston Lachaille (Jourdan) who loves to get away from society's trappings - which he finds a "bore" - by visiting her humble apartment, especially because of her energetic granddaughter; he's known Gigi since she was a child and loves to play cards with her.But Gigi is now a young woman who follows Gaston's public love life with delight. Advised by his uncle (Chevalier), an older version of himself, Gaston drops yet another woman (Eva Gabor) he's been dating hoping to escape the trappings of high society for a while.During this time, he takes Gigi and Madame Alvarez to the sea during which he begins to notice the former's maturation. With encouragement and education from Aunt Alicia, a match is eventually made (at first, Gigi resists the arrangement until she decides that she'd "rather be miserable with him than without him").However, when Gigi acts like the courtesan she's been trained to be in lieu of the precocious and fun 'child' he'd been used to, he's forced to examine his lifestyle and make a decision.Added to the National Film Registry in 1991. #35 on AFI's 100 Greatest Love Stories list. "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" is #56 on AFI's 100 Top Movie Songs of All Time.

gavin6942 Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy (Louis Jourdan) and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.This is apparently a film about fashion, because Gigi is all about fancy clothes. When bundled up, she looks very much like Madeleine (which, for all I know, is normal in France). But underneath? Some bold, wild patterns! Gigi is a role that seemed tailor-made for Audrey Hepburn, and I guess that some people wanted her to have it, though Leslie Caron nails it. Is Caron as big a name as Audrey? Goodness, no. But perhaps she ought to be.

David Conrad A musical with only two memorable songs ("Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and "It's a Bore"), only one of which is good ("It's a Bore"), is not likely to be a good musical. Indeed, this is one of the most boring and poorly-acted in the history of the genre. The story ostensibly takes place in France, but it seems to unfold mainly in bland, claustrophobic drawing rooms. The title character's naive, youthful waifishness makes the relationship aspect of the film feel vaguely inappropriate, and this is only underscored by the aforementioned song about little girls, which is sung by a quintessentially creepy old man. This is a contender for worst Best Picture winner.