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.
3.年代跨越的时间较长，各年代把握的都挺好，没有让人出戏的感觉
期待值拉高了。。。
角度比较清奇的片子，用了一点点超现实主义，来重新探讨这个人时常会感到迷茫的问题。从切腹自尽的关谷神奇到郭小鲁，从唱歌难听的杜拉拉到苏凌芳，演员自身的蜕变也正巧印证着这个主题。
5/10。不老只能是奇事。立意不错，思想也够深刻，台词算精彩，演员也给力。但问题是，这几样全都是散沙，不能有机结合在一起。或许王朔的笔杆子最好的状态，就停留在上世纪八九十年代了吧。
开头有《阳光灿烂的日子》的质感…青梅竹马的确难忘啊。
无聊的旁白，当全依靠旁白来讲述剧本的潜台词时，注定了是一部令人惋惜的电影。
有没有导演能拍个正常人演的正常故事，逻辑能自圆其说的啊
本来以为是翻拍本杰明巴顿奇事，没想到换了种方式讲人生。生死离别其实就包含在普通生活的片段里，再想利用科学去改变也都不太可能。电影从头到尾都是不同的人在不断的分别，离开，后面非洲那里有点跳脱了，但是整体上我觉得是不错的。演员们也都好。虽然王传君我个人还是觉得有一点药神的影子在身上，王珞丹却是好的，她不再和自己死磕了，或许也可能这就是她死磕出来的结果，挺适合她的。
很多地方总感觉可以处理的没那么狗血那么仓促/杂乱/突兀/折磨/莫名其妙，是可以把这个故事讲深讲好的。可编剧和导演就是要把血压拉满，借文艺之名在各种“感人”情节里跃迁，把大把文艺的台词甩到观众脸上
两分献给开头，开头真的蛮有意思的，后面就逐渐走入了装逼的魔咒。 抖音上有一种短视频，一开始露个腹肌，然后夸擦一声掏出砧板开始包饺子。 这电影仿佛反过来了，刚开头有滋有味的包饺子教程，然后夸擦一声变成腹肌，就这样显摆了俩小时，也没下一步，令人索然无味———还不如踏踏实实包饺子呢！
有时候想，人生真的很无奈啊，哪里才是我生活的尽头呢。
王珞丹有突破的感觉，她眼睛里面都是戏了。
前半部分时代感、荒谬喜剧节奏都太棒了，王珞丹演技也惊艳，刷新覆盖了心里记忆的阈值。这就更显得后半部分的拖拉和平淡。
前半部拍得很有戲味, 但中期以後变化太大, 跟前有点脫节, 说到最後, 人為何而生, 答案是應活在当下, 才無遺憾。
得分：6.5
讲的是个啥，王传君演技很好吗？王珞丹演的是个啥？我看不懂看不懂。
这不是写实电影，这是魔幻片。感觉看了好多内容，又好像什么也没接收到。救命啊......
期待值拉高了。。。
你还不如直接说跟看见慢动作一样，达到了“不老”，居然这么科学的去造干细胞……所谓的“爱情”，更像是编剧一厢情愿的认为：自己念念不忘的人，在老了或者出事的时候，会回过头来找自己的。
你的记忆是你的一切 逃避记忆就没有继续的意义
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