A watchable-but-not-entirely effective mix of musical drama that helps if you're a fan of jazz, and romantic squabbling between two pairs of musicians and their new lovers--Sidney Poitier's saxophonist and Paul Newman's trombonist who share a band that plays in Paris nightclubs, and go on a fateful double date with a pair of Americans (Joanne Woodward and Diahann Carroll) that leads to them having to choose between their hearts and their art, a case made more complex, in Poitier's instance,…

It's sort of tricky to know what to say after this one--on the one hand, I'm pretty sure a lot of other people are articulating things better in their reviews, and on the other hand, I'm still recuperating from the experience of this one. That said, I feel like I should write something, so a few points:

+I was worried about seeing it in 3D, but the film's color palate is bright enough that it didn't feel like I lost…