imagine: you go to paris on vacation with your friend and the first two men you meet are paul newman & sidney poitier AND they're in a jazz band. talk about unrealistic standards for men!!!
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.
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imagine: you go to paris on vacation with your friend and the first two men you meet are paul newman & sidney poitier AND they're in a jazz band. talk about unrealistic standards for men!!!
wish hollywood wasn't so scared and had given us the paul newman/diahann carrol love affair we deserved
Still have my same problems with this one. On the surface it feels so modern and invigorating, but it presents itself so lifelessly. No spirit. Nothing. And I feel even more frustrated after learning that the original book was mainly about Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll’s characters, while the movie added the white character played by Paul Newman. (And, according to Wikipedia, the film was supposed to include interracial romances, but the studio refused, so what's left is Paul Newman making an "all these white girls look alike" remark and then being set up with Joanne Woodward lol.) I love the Newmans in other films, but they’re just so boring here in comparison to Poitier and Carroll’s intrinsic charm and chemistry. Paris Blues is fine, not a bad film, just so middle-of-the-road in almost every aspect.
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.
Martin Ritt directed the 1961 musical romantic drama.
The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score by Duke Ellington.
