John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).
John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.
Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.
Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.
When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.
Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.
John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.
The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
还是主题深度上皆如是
高概念下竟如此保守，把人类进化的探讨拉低到要通过手术，切割去体会新性爱及快感。不得不说，格局小了。
虽然有我老婆主演，但是依旧不妨碍这是个垃圾
很奇怪的体验，视觉收获极大大过了内在情感收获，所以我坚持认为这不是电影，这是你去逛艺术馆，里面名叫“大卫柯南伯格”的艺术主题分展，包含生物朋克，基因改造，器官裸露，人体解剖，行为艺术，前卫性爱等主题，请按指引依次浏览，门票不退不换，姑且认为苍白单薄的艺术本身就可以叙事，那逛次展能逛出来多少收获也就取决于观众了。
某种意义上甚至不如钛，好像这个新世界并不真实存在，需要一直向观众介绍创作的世界观似的。
而贯穿始终的行为艺术，更带来的是关于身体和意志的决定论辩驳。人类在未来究竟会去往什么样的高度？是进化迭代中新新人类黑暗起舞，或者罪行之下一行热泪里反射出的亮度……
9/10。不出所料，年度十佳。实质上的第一部柯能堡。
性即手术，解剖即快感，新型进化的展现，却是一场器官血肉交融的狂欢，不仅是身体进行的一场革命，更是人类思维的一场政治战争，渴望顺应变化和旧古思想遵从器官逻辑的人，本质上都在对社会未来作出自己的抉择，柯南伯格依旧有像四十年前般的前卫，最后其实也是一场向社会媒体公众的新导向，有《录像带谋杀案》的味道。但可惜在于，场景和对话全在解释这个世界，显得过于空洞，那些极致的肉体美学让人惊喜，也挽回不了刻意的展现和沉闷的叙事，喜欢却也不太能给出高分，想起当初看柯南伯格老片的惊艳感，或许是能代入到那个年代所突出的独特思维，而本片的设定在这个时代，只能说还可以更加大胆
不明觉厉，回想上次，还是柯南伯格的《欲望号快车》
内脏暴露狂，额。令人难以理解的审丑艺术。
身体即现实，现实即电影。
What if we are able to design human bodies?柯南伯格思辨着一个human augmentation走向极点的未来，以情感、艺术、商业、政治的新范式点缀这个新世界。看到创作者的意志驱动身体内源的创造力进化出新的器官（自然物-->人造物），还是有眼前一亮。大多数器官改造的思辨设计停留在去人类中心的反思，此片却用艺术和宗教（人类主体性）扩展了一个更具争议的对话空间。在痛感和快感的刀锋之外，字里行间的小幽默和结尾老式性爱的拥吻得以看见导演的俏皮和幽默。
混乱的三角视角
柯南伯格又打开了一种迷人的高概念世界，而Saul Tenser最后的变异，让这个概念向前跨出重要一步的同时也升华了整部电影。在细微入里的快感体验中，人们的精神开始扭曲，开始走向悲剧，吃下塑料的Saul，果真是五味杂陈地坦然面对。小K的表演看得我有点懵，我只能强行解释成柯南伯格让她这样演，但还是觉得别扭。
当代艺术创作现状，自嗨的，围观的，接头的，谈恋爱的，想往里加料的，翻来覆去就是那几样，挣扎来挣扎去，然后找新的蛋白棒啃，啃完泪流满面，不知道是不是对得住这么多年的勤勤恳恳。New Sex...New就New在两人可以躺床上摆拍，或者男主躺里面时调皮地吐吐舌头，亦可做个拉链防止叮当猫口袋里的东西掉出来。这种变态是空虚的，但他仍要假装继续探讨，只是Crash里的性感不再，又证明了人的老去是可以体现在作品里的。
看不懂但大为震撼 柯南伯格脑子里装的到底是啥呢
没有那么好，其实就是一种对60-70年代的身体艺术，行为艺术的一种超长反射弧。未来也不未来，反而是一种复辟的未来主义。蕾老师大概是取代了Eva Green，成为英语片里必脱的法国女演员，裸戏其实没啥真的必要。
可以质疑如此这般的“未来”，但一定要退回到现在甚至过去吗？
探讨科技，艺术和道德边界的矛盾，主题创意还不错，但是很多人物动机我没太看懂？ 主角卧底改造人世界结果最后自己变成改造人了？克里斯丁在里面的戏很迷，她到底是干什么的。
应该是离戛纳最近的一次了吧，片名出现的时候简直想尖叫，这么快就公映了，荷兰人真有你的！如果surgery is the new sex的意思就是在无意义和痛苦中寻找意义的话还是蛮酷的，但是结尾莫名其妙转到基因修正这种把人工具化的old sex，最后真正在践行new sex的只有主角两人了吧。当代艺术一旦卷起来就很无聊了。Whatever，如果这代导演只剩一个酷小孩的话那一定是柯南伯格！
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