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Provincetown Film Art Series: An American in Paris
The Provincetown Film Art Series, now in its 18th year, is sponsored by the Provincetown Film Society (PFS) and Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) and curated and hosted by film scholar Howard Karren. Films in the series, both recent and vintage, are chosen around central themes, but the focus is on films about artists and creativity, and films that are themselves works of art.
An American in Paris (1951)
Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Produced by Arthur Freed. Story and screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner. With Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. Choreographed by Gene Kelly. 1 hour, 54 minutes.
This romantic tale of an American painter in Paris (Gene Kelly) who falls for a sweet parisienne (Leslie Caron) is really a meditation on love, art, and money — in other words, Hollywood. It’s also the ultimate expression of studio artistry: directed by Vincente Minnelli with exquisite taste, lavishly produced by MGM’s Freed unit in Los Angeles, inventively choreographed by Kelly, and inspired by George Gershwin’s luscious jazz-inflected score.
