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.
女儿讨厌母亲告诉同事她隔离了，这是她的私隐；
我喜欢钟孟宏拍的所有电影。这次是新冠疫情背景下单亲家庭母女。生活不易长期压抑的情绪最终会变为洪水席卷一切。城市中产的崩溃就在一瞬间。叛逆的女儿一夜之间成熟到令人心疼。希望贾静雯可以拿今年金马影后。
算是合格的疫情时代命题作文，经济下行加上情感受创所导致的人生下坠点了“瀑布”的主题，前半段用了很多悬疑手法只为了展现贾静雯的精神状态，然而从病情曝光后就一路没什么风波，从保姆，病友，到商场经理，中介主管，甚至连前夫都没有什么丑恶嘴脸，影片过于刻意地塑造了一个“真空”环境来治愈贾静雯，让人怀疑是不是在她耳边响起的声音会是志玲姐姐的你要加油，当然如果想被鼓励看看这个还是不错的。
被隔离，被压抑，人与人之间强烈的距离感。“你可不可以答应我一件事？不要再问我‘你还好吗’，我会想办法好起来，好好地跟你一起过下去。”
从《阳光普照》里的儿子变成女儿。不管是老式还是现代的公寓，同一个屋檐下的亲人也不能互相理解。
设立 魏如萱这种念大字报的角色，单纯增加了矫揉造作的不和谐。 所有的人物都用力过猛，脱离现实，但又不梦幻。
女主的精神病人角色设定有种走“得奖捷径”的感觉，反而是王净的女儿角色，人物弧光和成长都更完满。
相较《阳光普照》无疑是有点太过柔和，《瀑布》没有那么优秀，但相较内地的后疫情时代电影又极为丰富且真实，喜欢看台湾电影，最重要的原因是，它有我们一直缺少的对于家庭情感的关注，和对于都市人群内心的关照，冰冷的现实以及背后一点点温暖。
画面很不错。有点阳光普照的影子。但是剧情的起伏和演员的演技弱了点。贾静雯的演技不错。
私认为比阳光普照好，有快进的段落，比如精神病院，有细细看的地方，挺多，中介、卖房、熊猫、关于丈夫早就出轨有了孩子，贾静雯一直都知道，几位演员都不会出戏，尤其是贾静雯，卖场之花，几幅画挑的切题
在隱喻的層面做得還不夠極致，在日常生活的表現又過於呆板，可惜了一個很好的大背景下書寫家庭小故事的文本，究其原因是沒有完整統一的美學風格，大白話翻譯過來就是：沒想明白最終想要的是什麼。
众生皆苦且无常。滑落跟重力一样，撕拉每个人下地狱，不强大的会滑落，强大的也会滑落，无出其右。放弃我执吧，能向上就向上，扛不住也可以滑落，别被撕碎就行，底部也有风景。
如果看商业片人就会复健的话，那不是神经病就是白痴了。
画面很不错。有点阳光普照的影子。但是剧情的起伏和演员的演技弱了点。贾静雯的演技不错。
可以给两星，但因为分数太虚高，只能给1星。剧本奇差，又是一出生活绝望片，锺孟宏每次都搞这种类似的剧本，看多了就没意思了，更何况这部的调度奇差。贾静雯表演不错，王净还是那三板斧。
3.5 感觉是表演稍欠了一些火候，疫情的环境植入流于其表。
不知道为啥能感觉到，如果这几年文淇没有来大陆发展的话，女儿这个角色估计是她来演。
克制的场景布置反而让这种精神状态变得有些拧巴，诸多元素间渗透的清冷反而让呈现变得刻意。
我衷心的希望，钟孟宏导演的题材视角可不可以在拓宽一点点，就拍被互联网大厂异化的人啊，他们的痛苦不安与徘徊，和家人的关系，比这个故事深刻太多了，可以把它拍成悬疑惊悚，动作喜剧，外加鸡汤反转，你们想要的元素，互联网公司全都有！你就拍我好了，最后我也来一句：“不要再问你还好吗，我会想办法好起来。”这样不动脑的鸡汤台词，我也是张口即来的。结局也可以安排一个被什么冲走，早高峰晚高峰，加班打车晚21点都行～
小静他们去烤肉的时候给妈妈发了一条同学合唱的视频，让我想到了高中我们去春游几个同学合唱《流星雨》，想不到都已经是那么陈旧的事情了。
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