Gigi

Gigi

1958:

• January: The European Economic Community (EEC) is founded
• July: The Beatles, then The Quarrymen, pay 17 shillings and 6 pence to have their first recording session
• October: Blue Peter is first broadcast

Trivia:

With just four letters, Gigi set the record for Best Picture with the shortest title, not equalled until Argo in 2012.

Will:

Gigi is an awful film, with desperate over-acting, songs that seem to be unaware of how desperately dodgy they sound (‘Thank Heaven for Little Girls’ is a prime example) and a story line that is entirely obvious and clichéd. I’m a self-confessed musical fan, but even I see little to appreciate in this offering.

Rating: 3/10

Mark:

Gigi is the most difficult film I’ve had to review so far.  I have completely contrasting emotions about it; on one level it is absolutely terrible; horrible acting, dreadful accents, a plot that makes me want to gauge my eyes out and borderline xenophobia/francophobia and paedophilia running as undercurrents through the film. On the other hand there is a film so camp and over the top it makes Baz Luhrmann seem like Rocky – always a winner. I genuinely laughed a lot at this film and enjoyed a lot of the songs; whether I was laughing because it was what the director intended or it was with a deep-rooted sense of irony I can’t quite decide. One thing I would say: if they’d cast someone less annoying and more believable as Gigi, this would have been a much better film.

Rating: 5/10

Combined rating: 4/10