She’s adorable, and her relationship with Nate looks so sweet. We admit this made a very small part of us want a little monkey of our own. When we watched the trailer, we immediately fell in love with Gigi. Enter Gigi, a very intelligent capuchin monkey who brings a light and some hope to Nate’s world. Just when it feels like things are not getting any better, his mom requests a service animal to help. His whole life is completely changed by the accident, and it makes it difficult for him to move forward.
Inspired by a true story, Gigi and Nate is about a young man ( Charlie Rowe) who is left quadriplegic after suffering a catastrophic accident. The trailer for the film is out, and it looks like it’s going to be so heartwarming and funny as well. We know Gigi and Nate is going to be the film that makes us feel that and more. However, since I myself am probably one of the most cynical film-viewers I personally know of, take my word for it "Gigi" is a lot of fun, and a good way to spend two hours.With so much hate and sadness in the world and all that’s been happening over these past few years, it’s nice to escape from that by watching something that reminds us how important is to keep love in our hearts. "Gigi", while being a 10-time Oscar winner (including Best Picture) has unfortunately been marginalized by some as a typical MGM fluff piece, could be a hard sell, particularly to the jaded Generation Y - and - younger audience. Everyone in the film looks like they are having a good time (particularly Chevalier), and the great Lerner-Loewe music against the Parisian backdrop is enough to sell me. Sure, the revelations and epiphanies are pretty easy and kind of out of nowhere, but considering it is an MGM musical from the 1950's, I would be surprised if there weren't these kinds of things.
And I cannot get through the scene between Chevalier and Gingold when they sing "I Remember it Well" by the seaside without tearing up because it is just so damn cute. What makes "Gigi" such a good film is its unmitigated Charm with a capital "C" one can't help but grin a little when Chevalier sings "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" because he doesn't stop flashing that high voltage smile himself. Musicals are a rare genre on my "films I adore" list, but "Gigi" has long been a favorite film of mine, despite its sappy moments and sometimes corny jokes. I should at least sketch out the plot, so we're all on the same page: in 1900, strolling through the sensuously dappled walkways of the Bois du Boulogne, we encounter the garrulous old lecher Honor Lachaille (Maurice Chevalier), who greets us with the unmixed enthusiasm of a born raconteur - basically, Chevalier is playing exactly the same char. However, Gigi's innocence may not allow this to happen, as she struggles with making the transition between carefree girl to a refined lady with social responsibilities. Gigi is being bred by her grandmother and aunt to become a refined woman so she can become a mistress for rich and powerful men, so it comes as both a surprise and delight to the women to discover that Gaston may be a suitable candidate. The pseudo-narrator of the film is Henri Lachaille (Maurice Chevalier), Gaston's uncle and a notorious playboy in his own right, who loves to give his nephew relationship advice, solicited or not. Everyone cheats on everyone, and marriage is a cat-and-mouse situation where women want financial security and men simply don't. Gigi is a coltish teen in 1900's Paris who lives with her grandmother Madame Alvarez (Hermione Gingold) and who loves to hang out with family friend Gaston Lachaille (Louis Jourdan), an international jet-setter and playboy whose every relationship is documented in the papers. The year's 1900, and a dapper gentleman named Honor Lachaille strolls through a beautiful Paris park, introducing us to the current state of love: it's a game played carefully by women and men alike. Directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron as the title character, "Gigi" (1958) is nothing short of sweet and delightful.
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