Lili
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VHS Movie Reviews of Lili
Movie Review: Enchantment
Summary: 5 Stars
Leslie Caron in Lili has performed the most strange and wonderful act of conveying utter innocence. I don't know if she's slow or if she's really that innocent, but I loved the movie!Movie Review: ~I like the movie "Lili" but I dont like Lili herself~
Summary: 5 Stars
I liked the movie but I didn't like Lili herself! Only in her dreams she's better than Rosalie(Zsa Zsa Gabor) Lili is just a poor girl who lost everything but she fell in love with a magician but Rosalie said "Your crazy about Mark arent you?, you and a hundred others, me too!!!" But Lili winds up the puppet man instead(good). ~Always Lorraine~Movie Review: One of the 3 best films of all time
Summary: 5 Stars
"Lili" ranks with "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" as one of the three finest motion pictures ever filmed. Its captivating song, "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo," ranks with "Over the Rainbow," "When You Wish Upon a Star," "You'll Never Know," and "It's a Grand Night for Singing" as one of the five best original movie songs. Its climactic dream-ballet sequence, in which Lili dances with life-sized versions of four puppets, is rivaled only by the "Out of My Dreams" dream-ballet sequence of "Oklahoma." And no actress has ever been more adorable and endearing--or capable--than Leslie Caron is in this movie.Not really a musical, Lili is best described as a romantic fable or sophisticated fairy tale. It tells the story of a naive 16-year-old orphan who joins a carnival. There she brings success to a lame puppeteer (Mel Ferrer) by interacting with his four puppets. Her ingenuousness leads her to regard the puppets as real persons. Ferrer, though outwardly bitter about the war injury that ruined his career as an acclaimed dancer, shows flashes of inner kindness and humanity: he uses his puppets at one point to infuse joy into a despondent Lili, and he smiles when she isn't looking. Soon he falls in love with Lili. But she can't recognize as Ferrer's the tenderness that is revealed only in the puppets. Repelled by the overt rudeness of "the angry man," Lili becomes infatuated with the carnival's magician, a ladies' man. When she eventually learns the magician is married, Lili's eyes open. But the puppeteer's jealousy still clouds her vision. She decides to leave the carnival. Her departure precipitates the dream sequence. Here, dancing with the four puppets she has grown to love, she slowly realizes that each character represents a facet of the puppeteer's personality. Gola the giant, for example, is frightened by girls, so he tries to frighten them; but he is actually cowardly, clumsy, longing to be loved. Lili's belated recognition that Gola and the others are really Ferrer brings the story to its heartwarming conclusion.
This imaginative movie is more than a classic. It is pure enchantment. Make it your top priority.
Movie Review: Set The Record Straight
Summary: 5 Stars
Just to set the record straight on the source of this magnificent film. It is NOT based on the book "Love for Seven Dolls". The book was written and published a few years AFTER the film came out. It is based on a short story by Paul Gallico titled "The 7 Souls of Clement O"Rielly" that was published in the Saturday Evening Post. In it the story is of a girl on a TV show acting with puppets who is going to leave, then realizes her love for the puppets is actually for the puppeteer.
It was a sort of take on the wonderful "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" program, but there was never a romance beteen Burr Tillstrom and Fran Allison. In fact, the book, "Love for 7 Dolls" is dedicated to Burr Tillstrom (the puppeteer for Kukla) and Fran Allison. So it is obvious Mr. Gallico is acknowledging the inspiration for the stories to the TV show.
Movie Review: A perfect dose of nice-ness
Summary: 5 Stars
I somehow picked the perfect movie to watch this morning. Lili. It's about a puppeteer at a carnival who is bitter because of the hand life has dealt him. He was a dancer but his leg was injured in the war. So he performs with several puppets who are really just an extension of himself as he stays hidden below the small stage. As himself he's constantly bitter, but as the puppets he's able to express happiness. A beautiful young naive girl played by Leslie Caron comes along and the puppeteer falls in love with her but sees that she is in love with the "ladies man" of the carnival, the magician. The girl thinks of the puppeteer as "that angry man" but performs with him as part of the act; she kind of forgets that it's the angry man down below controlling and speaking for most of the puppets. I thought it was perfect that the puppets all refer to the puppeteer as the boss. When the girl is sad they ask her why: "Oh, is it the boss making you sad again?" Referring to the puppeteer as "the boss". I just really liked that. I fall in love with the character Lili. And I relate so much to this puppeteer who is bitter because he wants something better. He wants to fall in love with this sweet girl, dance again and just be happy. You're damn right if you think I got emotional while watching it. I miss working with genuinely nice and sincere people. Last week I had a shouting match with the "new guy" at my work. This guy is an arrogant you-know-what. I'm like the puppeteer and do a few things very well that nobody else at my work can do (it's why I still have a job there). This guy is a jack of all trades who compensates by doing a little of everything. He's of the mind that "we can do without you". Funny, he's been there for months and me 8 years but he still thinks he's going to swing getting rid of me. Cuttthroats? Yep. But watching Lili was exactly what I needed to do this morning. I'm like that puppeteer. I want the girl and to be happy. I hope others find this movie so warm like I did this morning. Oh, I am looking elsewhere for work...heh heh...but still Lili has me feeling much happier that I did last week.
If this film was done in widescreen (the early 1950s was when that started...to counteract Lucy and etc on the TV) let's have a good DVD treatment. In addition to being pure magic, this movie is therapy!