Widely considered to be the last of MGM’s classic musicals, Gigi is a lavish, Paris-set story with some very dark sexual undercurrents. Directed by the great Vincente Minnelli, it tells the story of a turn-of-the-century lothario, Gaston Lachaille (Louis Jourdan), who lives the highlife courting (and dropping) courtesans while making time for his friend Madame Alvarez (Hermione Gingold) and her precocious granddaughter Gigi (Leslie Caron). As Gigi blossoms into a young woman, Gaston plans to take her as his latest mistress, only to realize that he’ll eventually have to discard her. Maurice Chevalier also plays a big role, as Gaston’s uncle and a sort of narrator to the story.

The movie opens with Chevalier singing “Thank Heaven for Little Girls,” with all that not-so-subtly implies, and the basis of the story—about an aging man’s sexual interest in a very young woman—is more than a little queasy. Still, it’s a heck of a musical, with plenty of extras—commentary from Caron and film historian Jeanine Basinger, contemporary cartoon shorts, a making-of featurette, and, in its entirety, the 1949 black-and-white version of the musical, an interesting curiosity.

Caron fans—and musical fans, too, and fans of Caron musicals set in Paris and directed by Vincente Minnelli—should also be happy about a new special edition of An American in Paris, the exuberant musical about a France-dwelling G.I. and artist, the great Gene Kelly, and his own particular socio-sexual dilemma, torn between a sugar mama (Nina Foch) and his beloved (Caron). The film’s climax, an impressionistic 13-minute “ballet,” set to George Gershwin’s music, is sublime. The special edition features something called a “concerto of a commentary,” culled from interviews with Kelly, Minnelli and others involved in the film’s making, shorts and cartoons, a new making-of doc, a 2002 American Masters doc on Kelly, radio ads for the film and a number of song outtakes.