What in the fuck? This is a film about a innocent teenager from the slums whose grandmother and aunt are training her to become an escort. Anyway, the plot itself is mostly what I wanted to address. Admittedly, the running time is due to the overabundance of songs, all of which are awful and boring, but even without the songs, the plot advances at a snail's pace it is one of the most slow moving films I have ever watched, and I usually love and watch slow moving films such as anything from Ozu, Kieslowski, Antonioni, you get the point.

First off, the film is almost two hours long. However, the cinematography is the only thing that wasn't cringeworthy in this film. That being said, I decided to watch Gigi because it won an extraordinary amount of Oscars including Best Picture, and while I know that is no indicator of a film's substance, especially during the time in which it was released, being the film buff that I am I felt like I needed to see it.įirst off, the film has decent cinematography, and there are some great vivid colors in the film, mostly involving people's ornate clothing (the film takes place in 1900 Paris), as well as furniture and decorations. Now and then I'll come across a musical that is genuinely well-made, and is not just fluff and emptiness, Fiddler on the Roof is one of these, but for the most part musicals simply do not impress me. I find them to be silly, preposterous, and 99% of the time, they favor musical numbers, choreography, costume design, and shit like that above plot, acting, dialogue, or themes.

First off, let me just say that I am not a fan of musicals.

Gigi 1958 viooz