Rating: - Pleasant but uninvolving drama
Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier play US expatriates ,both jazz musicians,living and working in Paris .Newman is in Paris because he feels more able to grow musically in a European environment while Poitier is escaping racial prejudice in the US .They meet two US tourists and pair off together ,Newman with Joanne Woodward and Poityier with Diahann Carroll .Cue much -frankly rather dull-discourse between the couples in bars ,cafes etc and frequent leisurely perambulations around the city in which they talk(my how they do talk!)about life ,love and the whole damned thing!Carroll devotes much time ... Read More
Rating: - Great music
Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier are two expatriot jazz musicians living in Paris; Newman is there to compose serious music and Poitier to escape from racial prejudice in the US. Along come Joanne Woodward and Diahann Carroll on vacation, and in a flash they're paired off and in love. Carroll wants Poitier to return to the US ("life is better there now for blacks," she says). Newman wants to go back to America with Woodward, but realizes that music is his whole life and must pursue it further in Paris on his own. Since it's a jazz movie there's the obligatory drug scene with one of the other ... Read More
Rating: - Paris Blues - a defining moment
I moved to Paris in 2003. I am retired, black and american. Friends always asked ... why Paris? I kept saying, I vacationed in Paris but never found the moment until today...
I finally can identify when I first fell in love with Paris. It was when I was 10
years old and saw the movie Paris Blues. It starred Paul Newman and Joanne
Woodward but what struck me was it also starred Sidney Poitier and Diahann
Carroll, that was unheard off back then but I was too young to know. I still
remember a scene with Diahann Carroll wearing this coat. It was then that a quiet ... Read More
Rating: - Dreamy & Sad
Having lived in Paris for awhile, I was drawn to watching the film. It was great to see something made in the period when American jazz was popular in Paris, in the 50s-60s. I always love seeing the scenes in Paris, a city that never seems to change appearance--when you've lived there, it's always interesting to realize that you've only seen it in a long line of others who have parallel experiences. The film is a bit slow, but still worth seeing. The racial discussions and the fact that black Americans are portrayed as regular people with personal lives and complete personalities--as opposed to seeing ... Read More
Rating: - The elusive frontier!
The bliss against the love : two musicians in search of the fame and glory. Two women in love who suddenly find the love of their lives in the middle of the Light City.
Paris the same city which opened its arms to Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis among others jazz celebrities.
Ritt makes an exceptional tour de force film with impeccable performances of all the cast. The supreme highlight is the casual encounter between Satchmo, Poitier, Newman and the gypsy guitarrist.
A must for any lover cinema and a reference for the jazz hard fans.
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