| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Duke Ellington |
Directed by Martin Ritt
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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Two American girls arrive in Paris for a two week vacation. Paul Newman is there to meet fellow musician Louis Armstrong, and manages to pick up the girls as well. Newman is the main attraction at a small jazz club, along with his friend and fellow musician Sidney Poitier. They romance the girls against a picaresque Paris backdrop. Newman's character is cold and selfish, and his relationship with the girl, his real-life wife Joanne Woodward, is superficial at best. Poitier falls in love with his girl and she manages to convince him to return with her to the States. Newman and Woodward's fate is less certain, but the characters are so unlikeable that I found myself uninterested in their final meeting at the train station. The soundtrack is wall-to-wall jazz, and the black-and-white photography of Paris excellent, but in the end it is nothing more than a rather routine relationship drama.
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