![]() ![]() Honoré hasn't let his advancing age interfere with his exuberant enjoyment of chasing beautiful women. He is captivated by her boyish enthusiasm, even when he is refused, rejected, rebuffed, and repudiated.Maurice Chevalier is outstanding as Gaston's elderly charming uncle. He brings to Gigi her caramels, licorice and champagne. The only woman he enjoys is one of his uncle's old girlfriends, Madame Alvarez, whose granddaughter, Gigi, strikes him as particularly irreverent. A very elegant bachelor bored with the high society life. His manners and behavior, and even his singing voice, are perfectly suited to the character.Gaston is a high-living Parisian lover, a bon vivant, rich and famous. His character is a harmonious mixture of worldly cynicism and romantic idealism. He makes his offer in good faith before any emotional advance. Louis Jourdan behaves like a perfect Gaston Lachaille. With her fleeting facial expressions, she captures brilliantly the transformation of a teasing tomboy into the hesitant, uncertain blooming of adult sexuality. To her, the glory of romance and the music of love are not quite enough.Leslie Caron is an absolute delight as the irrepressible Gigi. Gigi shocks and upsets everyone by refusing to become Gaston's latest conquest. She knows how to test the quality of a cigar, and learns the refinements and graces of her family's exalted profession along with some of Aunt Alicia's basic recommendations.Gigi progress from a Parisian gamine of the belle époque, to 'a definite allure.' Gaston, a longtime friend of the family, regards Gigi as a silly child, until he realizes that there has been a breathless change. Gigi is a potential coquette who steals everyone's heart. ![]() Honoré's ravenous appetite for life is contrasted with the world-weariness of his suave aristocrat nephew Gaston Louis Jourdan, who, in the song 'It's a Bore!,' express his total indifference to absolutely everything.Soon we are swept into the private world of Gigi, the adorable Parisian schoolgirl trained to follow the family tradition. The film opens in the City of Lights, in a period that had its own visual style, the early 1900s, where Honoré Lachaille Maurice Chevalier, standing in the lovely park of 'The Bois De Boulogne,' announces himself as 'a lover and collector of beautiful things.' He sings "Thank Heaven for Little girls" with all the captivating smile and enduring charm that kept him an international super star for four decades. ![]() Picture.'Gigi' is the delightful story of a young French girl raised and lavished by her grandmother, and her great-aunt, to follow the family tradition by becoming a courtesan. ![]()
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