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This review is of the DVD. If you haven’t seen this 1958 classic in widescreen format, you really haven’t seen it. Director Vincente Minnelli (Liza’s father) fills each frame beautifully, often composing scenes reminiscent of the impressionist painters he so loved, such as Renoir or Seurat. Letterbox-haters, this is a safe test of the superiority of seeing a movie the contrivance the director intended, not crammed into the 1:1.33 TV conceal. (The DVD includes both versions, so comparison comes cheap.)
The year is 1900. Gigi (Leslie Caron) is a pubescent young woman who becomes more and more gorgeous to millionaire Gaston Lachaille (Louis Jordan) . But Gigi’s family has a tradition of “Instead of marrying at once, it sometimes happens we acquire married at last.” Making the tradition from pre-teen to delicate young woman, awkward Gigi is “trained” in the arts of catering to men, such as choosing a cigar, walking elegantly and pouring coffee in the best French manner. The payoff for this kind of training is to enjoy a rich young gentleman’s bed–until he tires of this courtesan and moves on. While serene in favor, the lady in query lives in luxurious style: tutor Aunt Alicia (Isabel Jeans) advises her charge to “Wait for the first-class jewels, Gigi. Bear on to your ideals.”
The team of Lerner and Loewe wrote songs for this musical that include such favorites as “Thank Heaven for Miniature Girls” and “The Night They Invented Champagne.” On its initial release “Gigi” was touted as the cinematic equivalent of their demolish Broadway play “My Magnificent Lady,” as the movie trailer on this DVD makes apparent. Gigi won a slew of Oscars, beating out the presumed well-liked, Susan Heyward in “I Want to Live.”
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It is no mistake that the compilation film of MGM’s best musicals, “That’s Entertainment,” features Gigi as the last chronological example of the MGM high-quality, lavish musical. Minnelli would go on to protest many more films, including the 1960 musical “Bells Are Ringing” with Judy Holliday and Dean Martin, but “Gigi” was really MGM’s “swan song” for expensive musicals, which were getting harder and harder to mount because of television and changing musical tastes (like Elvis) .
With a lot of begging and pleading from the director and producer, the studio spent enough money in Hollywood to duplicate Maxim’s restaurant and the Ice Gallery, a common meeting-place for the 1900 elite. Minnelli’s visual wit is visible in the method he frequently uses proper Parisian backgrounds of fountains and statuary, indirectly symbolizing and commenting on the mental set of the actor in front.
The whole cast is genuine, including Hermione Gingold as Gigi’s grandmother and the incomparable Maurice Chevalier as Gaston’s uncle, Honore Lachaille. It is microscopic wonder that this film is the very favorite–or stop to it–among lovers of musicals. “Gigi” is first-class all the method. Even people who don’t often choose musicals may well bask in the film for its masterly visual style and recreation of turn-of-the (last) century Paris.
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What more can I say? Derive ahold of this film Correct NOW while the notice is so edifying. I don’t consider you’ll regret it.
For those wondering why they should capture another edition of “Gigi” on DVD, here are all the extras; however, if you acquire a Blu-ray, you might want to wait and pre-order Gigi [Blu-ray]. Other than the technical specs, the extras are the same on both versions.
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Winner of 9 Oscars, “Gigi” was produced after the demise of the unique 3-Strip Technicolor system, and photographed in the industry-standardized Eastmancolor process, which had a tendency to proceed to reds and purples. For this fresh DVD release, Gigi has been photo-chemically restored from its recent camera negative and safety separations to perform a worthy sharper and lustrous image than has been seen in decades. It also contains a 5.1 audio mix created from the unusual multi-track source elements.
Disc 1 (Gigi ‘58) : 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen * English DD5.1 Surround * French Mono * English, French and Japanese subtitles * Bluray specs: 1080P 2.40:1 Widescreen, English 5.1 Dolby TrueHD, English 5.1, French 2.0, Spanish 1.0 (Both Castilian and Latin), German 1.0, Italian 1.0 Dolby Digital, Subtitles (Main Feature) : English, French, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Subtitles (on Lift Bonus Material) : English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese
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*New Commentary with Leslie Caron & Film Historian Jeanine Basinger
*The Million Dollar Nickel [1952 MGM short]
*The Vanishing Duck [1958 MGM cartoon]
*Theatrical Trailer
Disc 2: “Thank Heaven! The Making of Gigi” The account of how 1958’s Best Represent winner (the last of the classic MGM musicals) survived a turbulent production that included censorship battles over its brave sexual recount and creative struggles between a studio in turmoil and a demanding, visionary director. Featuring an all-new interview with star Leslie Caron, and a rare interview with Oscar-winning director Minnelli
Original 1949 Nonmusical version of Gigi starring Daniele Delorme in the title role and directed by Jacqueline Audry (in French Mono with English subtitles)
For those not familiar with the space, Gaston (Louis Jordan) is the descendant of a wealthy Parisian family who rebels from the superficial lifestyle of upper class Parisian 1900s society by socializing with the passe mistress (Hermoine Gingold) of his uncle (Maurice Chevalier) and her outgoing, tomboy granddaughter, Gigi (Leslie Caron) . When Gaston becomes aware that Gigi has matured into a woman, her grandmother and aunt (Isabel Jeans), who have educated Gigi to be a wealthy man’s mistress, enjoin on him to become her provider and on her to accumulate such a golden opportunity. However, good esteem adds a surprise twist to this Cinderella anecdote that was actually filmed in Paris.
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