Feb 3, 2019
An American in Paris (1951) Love is Here to Stay
“That scene is one of the most romantic ever put on film, as Kelly - as both choreographer and dancer - breathes life into Lerner’s script. The body language he imposes on himself and Caron, particularly when she tries to flee from him and he seizes her hand and almost shyly draws her back, and when they walk in slow graceful unison toward the camera as she rests her head on his shoulder, accumulates into one the most exquisitely lyrical portrayals of the timidity and vulnerability and gentleness of deep sexual encounter in the whole history of art”
-Source: The Musical Worlds of Lerner and Loewe
