La vie parisienne

Jacques Mendoza, a wealthy Brazilian who knew Paris in 1900, where he had a love affair with the star of Offenbach's brand new comic opera, La Vie parisienne, returns thirty-five years later with his son Ramiro and his granddaughter Helenita to show them the place of his first loves and introduce them to a life that he greatly appreciated in his youth. The young girl meets a bank employee, and it's love at first sight...

But the girl's daddy (Mendoza's son) is straIt-laced, snob,and puritan; the screenplay links the screenplay with Offenbach's operetta ; the old generation is liberal whilst the middle-one is conservative ;the film is essentially a musical,with plenty of songs ,French can can and the whole shebang.

This film belongs to great Siodmak's French career after he was driven away from his homeland by the Nazis ;personally ,his musicals (this one,"la crise est finie" ) are not my cup of tea ; I'd take his great films noirs ("Mollenard ,capitaine corsaire" and "pièges" ) any day ;they predicted his future American masterpieces everybody knows.