My Review

Summary: A true gem with character
Score: 8/10

A new and dearly kindred friend of mine who I have taken to like a fish to water recommended this movie to me, and this morning I'm watching it after finding a rare copy on DVD, so thank you Samantha wherever you are.

Based on the play by Alexandre Breffort, and gorgeously flowing and sweeping music of Paris by Marguerite Monnot and Andrew Previn, the film starts in a city, like any other city, with a working girl, hustling to make a buck.. gotta love Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot (1959), Love in the Afternoon (1957), Stalag 17 (1953) and Sunset Blvd. (1950) to name just a few, wrote the screenplay, produced and directed this little gem, a story of life and life, passion and death.

This is the story of Irma La Douce (Shirley MacLaine) in the first movie I ever saw her in that I thought: "wow she's hot!"... what were we talking about again? Oh ya! The movie also stars and the one good but naive cop in town Jack Lemmon the naive but goodly cop who meets Irma outside the Hotel Casanova.

When Nestor loses his job on the force and sees how poorly the girls are being treated by their "managers", he steps in to create a new and respectable paradigm for the ladies of the street.

Jack Lemmon's character Nestor soon discovers that though he refuses to try to force Irma to change, he spent the past years of his life trying to change people and it only got him fired, he comes up with a cunning plan to keep her all to himself without her knowing.

A true gem of a movie and deserving of the Oscar it won.



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