Amazon.com Essentials:
A GI (Gene Kelly) stays in Paris after the war to become an
artist, and has to choose between the patronage of a rich American
woman (Nina Foch) and a French gamine (Leslie Caron) engaged to an
older man. The plot is mostly an excuse for director Vincente Minnelli
to pool his own extraordinary talent with those of
choreographer-dancer-actor Kelly and the artists behind the screenplay, art
direction, cinematography, and score, creating a rapturous musical not
quite like anything else in cinema. The final section of the film
comprises a 17-minute dance sequence that took a month to film and is
breathtaking. Songs include "'S Wonderful," "I Got Rhythm," and
"Love Is Here to Stay." --Tom Keogh
