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Lili [VHS] | ![Lili [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y1MQB67ZL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Charles Walters
Actors: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kasznar
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Category: Video
Buy Used: $23.95
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Seller: thebookgrove
Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 98
Format: Color, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 81 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6302148332
UPC: 027616031037
EAN: 9786302148336
ASIN: 6302148332
Theatrical Release Date: 1953
Release Date: December 21, 1994
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com essential video
The wonderful Leslie Caron stars in this Oscar-winning musical fable with a touch of the bizarre. Caron plays Lili, a recently orphaned waif hopelessly in love with a carnival magician. Mel Ferrer plays Paul, a gruff puppeteer who can express his softer side only through his puppets. Sound weird? It is. Caron's performance is lovely. She is, as always, a graceful dancer, but she is also able to pull off the much more difficult task of making Lili pure and innocent without being icky--she talks to Paul's puppets with complete conviction. (The puppets, by the way, are incredibly creepy.) Younger viewers will take Lili at face value, but adults may well get sucked into its unintentional dark side: homelessness, suicide, emotional repression, and giant dancing puppets all come into play. Also enjoyable is Zsa Zsa Gabor, who does a great job standing around looking pretty as the magician's assistant. --Ali Davis
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 fast shipping for vintage movie August 16, 2009
J. H. Mcdaniel (Boulder, CO)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
not a lot to say. I ordered it. it came quickly. I watched it!
 leslie and mel were fantastic May 20, 2009
Earline Taylor
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I DO NOT REMEMBER HOW I FIRST CAME TO SEE THIS MOVIE. BUT I REMEMBER WATCHING IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER. I JUST COULD NOT GET OVER THE FANTASY THAT THE MOVIE PRESENTED. I REALLY ENJOYED THE PART WHEN PAUL AND LILI ARE DANCING AND PAUL IS STUNNINGLY DRESSED IN BLUE. I CAN'T REMEMBER ANY ACTOR I HAVE EVER SEEN LOOK THAT GOOD IN BLUE BEFORE OR SINCE. THE ENDING WAS WONDERFUL WHEN LILI RUNS BACK TO THE PUPPET SHOW AND SHE AND PAUL FINALLY SHOW EACH OTHER HOW MUCH THEY LOVE EACH OTHER. I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THIS MOVIE IS IN MY HANDS. WILL DEFINITELY BE PLAYING IT ON "REPEAT."
 Movie...LILI March 3, 2009
Mary C. Bunting
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Unfortunately the video I received was not viewable. It had many glitches. The video jumped all over, had a rushing sound so the dialogue was not heard, and was a complete mess.
I have notified the seller, and he has told me to keep the video,(?), and he will reimburse my purchase price...I am still waiting for that to happen.
Exquisite & touching February 11, 2009
William Timothy Lukeman
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm happily adding my 5 stars to those of many previous reviewers here. This is a lovely gem -- and while it's a terrific family film in the best sense of the phrase, as enjoyable to small children as to adults, it also negotiates some darker & troubling emotional territory with subtle skill. The themes of innocence, unrequited love, crippling bitterness, and callous self-absorption, are all explored in a fairy tale framework, soaked in vibrant Technicolor.
Leslie Caron is perfectly cast as Lili. Not even Audrey Hepburn, the screen gamine supreme, could have brought this character to life as well. Her naïveté, her vulnerability, her open & yearning heart are embodied with utterly convincing grace & ease by the wide-eyed Caron.
Mel Ferrer is equally good as the crippled dancer turned puppeteer, unable to express his volatile emotions except through his puppets -- who are not, contrary to the Amazon reviewer, the least bit creepy! The ballet sequence in which the puppets become real, and reveal their true face to Lili, is a marvel of psychological revelation.
The supporting cast is also up to the task, with warm & delightful turns by Kurt Kasznar & Zsa Zsa Gabor -- and Jean-Pierre Aumont radiates spoiled narcissism with hatefully icy disdain. But in the end, this is Leslie Caron's show, and she fills every colorful frame with life, wonder, and sensitivity.
Now, how much longer must we wait for the DVD? A film this good should have been available years ago, preferably with extras & commentary -- most highly recommended!
 Even for 1953, this has some problems August 22, 2008
Marcus Aurelius (PA USA)
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
After seeing a revival of Carnival at the Kennedy Center about two years ago, I wanted to see this. When I found a used copy recently, I was disturbed. The story focuses on a woman who borders on social retardation and a man who loves her who is emotional abusive unless he's using his puppets to communicate emotion. Hmmm. Worth watching, but what it says about gender roles in mid-century America is just downright disturbing.
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