Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she's not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita's old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and following his affairs from afar. But when Gaston throws off his latest mistress, it looks as if Gigi just might be ready to begin her destined career.
Acting
Delorme's Gigi—knowing, wounded, impossible to pin down.
Direction
Audry's female gaze on a story about male consumption.
Director
Jacqueline Audry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Colette's original story was even sharper; this adaptation softens without sanitizing. Hollywood's 1958 musical murdered its bite entirely.
Audry was among France's few female directors in 1949. Her Gigi doesn't gaze at herself—she watches them watching her.
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