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.
在新冠疫情之下单亲家庭的悲欢生活剪影，中产阶级的蜗牛壳并不比外卖盒硬多少，命途多舛人生难测，故事背景可谓与时俱进（结尾安排的突发事件亦是采用发生在去年的真实案件）。影片的演职人员团队几乎都是从《大佛普拉斯》、《阳光普照》、《同学麦娜丝》一直延续的班底，一群戏精本精你方唱罢我登场；无论是叙事还是表演，力求稳妥贴切、不刻意煽情、不用力过猛，比起人均几个凡尔赛的精致妆容正能量自信片要踏实许多。人家戴上口罩、只露双眼、全程素颜一样可以飙演技。“每个人都有难堪的过去，只是大小不同而已。而且，未来会怎样，也没有人知道。”“瀑布”是曾经的生活的崩塌、是深藏的执念的席卷、是破而后立的晓喻新生。“不要再问我你还好吗，我会想办法好起来。”栉风沐雨，玉汝于成，否极泰来，未来可期。主题曲陈珊妮《抉择》大赞。
比预告片好很多啊，看预告片感觉每个人的表演感爆棚，但是在片子里就还好，没有那么出戏。而且不知道为什么私人情感上喜欢这部多过阳光普照。
女孩和母亲一起走出困境的电影，渣男父亲的伤害，社会之毒，最终通过身边人的好心，母女相守最终走了出来。故事娓娓道来，表演细腻入微，音乐也很精准，疫情完全融入其中，没有喧宾夺主。
巨大变故的重建 被拆掉蓝色围挡的透亮 始终太摆拍
剧情和表演细腻，比阳光普照更加感同身受。特么贾静雯这样的女人，即便精神错乱了，只要不杀我，我愿有命就会抱着她。
看他的片看的不多，有点像看了一部是枝裕和的片子，但视听上明显精致得多。
完成度不如《阳光普照》，趣味程度不如《停车》，在疫情的大环境下，刻画女性，伦理关系的电影。《我们与恶的距离》看到了贾静雯的演技潜力，《返校》的女主角王净也挺有灵气，也做了一个台剧/台影宇宙的彩蛋。《阳光普照》陈以文，《麻醉风暴》许玮甯的医护人员，《火神的眼泪》刘冠廷的消防员。“瀑布”的意象引入的不错，阴郁歇斯底里的氛围营造的也不错，但是剧本割裂感比较重，有点失望。评分：7.5/10。
#瀑布#相比较《阳光普照》，这个片很平淡也很真实，没有很强的故事性，在日常的琐碎中迎接上帝关上一扇门的同时也关上了窗户式的各种麻烦，常常得不到一丝喘息，无力招架却不得不招架。这个片中看到了陈以文，有场戏是质问别人考过驾照没有，我猜这一幕是调侃他在《阳光普照》里驾校教练的角色
拍得真好。母女的演技真的太自然太棒啦。中年危机、房贷脱供、卖房受骗、做饭着火，疫情确诊，这种种事情都在我们周围，都在当下发生着，我们以旁观者的角度看电影，也身处其中去体会成年人的辛酸苦楚。无奈无奈
母女二人演的都很好，表演好过故事，刘冠廷最帅；总有人觉得钟孟宏过誉，但确实是我喜欢的风格
女孩和母亲一起走出困境的电影，渣男父亲的伤害，社会之毒，最终通过身边人的好心，母女相守最终走了出来。故事娓娓道来，表演细腻入微，音乐也很精准，疫情完全融入其中，没有喧宾夺主。
“小静 你能不能答应我一件事，不要一直问我你还好吗，我会想办法好起来的” 有点感动的
可能与近期自身的情绪问题有相似性，对片中那种迟缓、近乎淤滞的时间触觉感同身受，共鸣在耳。急骤激流并不可怕，生活滩涂中深一脚浅一脚地朝前走，才最考验电量。捕蛇者说，今虽死乎此，比吾乡邻之死则已后矣，又安敢毒耶。钢筋水泥丛薄中，亦为捕蛇更易。
昨晚看了钟导的《瀑布》，也给这个平淡无奇的春节增添了几分暖意。我们无时无刻不经受于汹涌的生活洪流之中，可能幸福热烈，可能艰难困苦，亦或被乱麻缠绕，我们都要努力朝前走。我们要更加理解时代，理解生活，理解爱。又一年了，愿我们继续自由，刚正，浪漫，继续做一个幸福的人。
3.5，前面的矛盾，精神疾病，到一点点变好，其实都还在可承受范围内，结尾的事件过于突如其来了。都说是熬的鸡汤，加上结尾的事件，却又更有一种，生活不可能如你所料的一帆风顺的感觉。“don't sweat it”
虽然算不上是什么佳作，但台湾近年来这类型的片子拿捏的很好，本片前20分钟我以为会是一部比较温暖的亲情片，但越看画风越诡异，直到最后野外烤肉那5分钟，整个人都跟着剧情变得揪心了起来。贾静雯演失心疯还是挺让人发寒的。
女主的精神病人角色设定有种走“得奖捷径”的感觉，反而是王净的女儿角色，人物弧光和成长都更完满。
女主之间的化学反应很好，不看不了解贾静雯这么能打。魏如萱……以后请坚守唱歌的本业。陈以文太牛了（大骂“会不会倒车”“考没考过驾照”的时候笑死我了）。有点老套的主线里绽放了很多文本美学，比如借精神病来反诘（中介、蛇、瀑布/洪水），比如瀑布象征的压倒性的压力、执念。正因为主线就是正常发挥，所以疫情并没有过多干预叙事，而是扮演着必要的最后一根稻草。比起《阳光普照》更喜欢这个。
越来越会拍，同时也不再追求那种尖锐的影调，可能是年龄的缘故？很少有人这么执着于去关注生活秩序的重建，钟孟宏的善意是对于人物的，也对于观众的。
只有导演对视听的掌握力在撑着，不至于失控。但也仅此而已了。看得出导演在用一些意象 物件与镜头努力与阳光普照串联起来（甚至还有陈以文“驾照有没有考倒车会不会”梗），但这一次真的有差。
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