Liza Minnelli stars as a singer whose rocky relationship with Robert De Niro’s temperamental jazz saxophonist falters as her career makes progress.
Director Martin Scorsese channels that ‘Dream Factory’ feeling through artificial soundstage sets and showstopping movie-within-a-movie musical numbers.
But it’s the raw emotional realism—embodied by Minnelli and De Niro’s vivid, intense romance as they fall in love, marry but then grow apart – that makes this so much more than a nostalgia trip.