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Brigadoon

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Original title

Brigadoon

Year

1954

Running time

103 min.

Country

United States

Director

Vincente Minnelli

Screenwriter

Alan Jay Lerner

Cast

Music

Frederick Loewe

Cinematography

Joseph Ruttenberg

Producer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Producer: Arthur Freed

Genre

Musical. Comedy. Romance. Fantasy | Small Town Life (Non-North American). Romantic Comedy

Synopsis

Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, on a hunting vacation in Scotland, discover a quaint and beautiful village, Brigadoon. Strangely, the village is not on any map, and soon Tommy and Jeff find out why: Brigadoon is an enchanted place. It appears once every hundred years for one day, then disappears back into the mists of time, to wake up to its next day a century hence. When Tommy falls in love with Fiona, a girl of the village, he realizes that she can never be part of his life back in America. Can he be part of hers in Brigadoon?

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Rankings Position

#57 Best Musical Movies
#141 Best Fantasy Movies

Awards: 1954: Oscar: 3 Nom., for Best Art Direction (Color), Costume Design color, Sound

1954: Golden Globes: Best Cinematography - Color

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Critics' reviews

"Overdone and not particularly tasteful musical stuff and nonsense. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

Kim Newman: Empire
"A classic - if not the classic - Minnelli musical, Brigadoon is an explicit statement about (and partial criticism of) the notion that an artist only lives through his art, preferring its reality to the world's."

Time Out
"With its lilting Lerner-Loewe score and great Kelly dance numbers, this is almost a Hollywood musical masterpiece."

Michael Wilmington: Chicago Tribune
"In transferring 'Brigadoon', a click as a [1947] Broadway musical play, to the screen, Metro has medium success. It's a fairly entertaining tunefilm of mixed appeal."

Variety Staff: Variety
"At least the dancing is good, and Vincente Minnelli’s restless camera gooses a plodding story into liveliness."

Jeremiah Kipp: Slant
"Probably the material was too precious and fake-lyrical to have worked in natural surroundings, either, but the way it has been done it's hopelessly stagey."

Pauline Kael: The New Yorker

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64 My Favorite Musicals (53)

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