The Dryden will screen Gigi (Vincente Minnelli, U.S. 1958, 115 min., 35mm) as part of the Academy Awards at 90 series.

In turn-of-the-century Paris, Gaston Lachaille (Louis Jourdan) grows bored with upper-class women and falls in love with a young girl, Gigi (Leslie Caron), who is training to become a courtesan. Maurice Chevalier's "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" is just one of the wonderful songs in Lerner and Lowe's marvelous score for this beloved Best Picture, praised by Jonas Mekas in the Village Voice for having "more imaginative use of cinema than all our recent pseudo-realist movies put together."

[source: George Eastman Museum, 2018-Jan-29]