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FUNNY FACE
1957
Director
Stanley Donen
Starring
Audrey Hepburn
Fred Astaire
Kay Thompson
Runtime
103 minutes
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Audrey Hepburn plays Jo Stockton, a tomboyish Greenwich Village bookstore clerk enamored with the French pseudo-philosophy of Empathicalism. After being discovered by the fashionistas behind Quality Magazine (Fred Astaire & Kay Thompson), Jo is whisked to Paris, divested of her intellectual ambitions and transformed into the walking embodiment of the “Quality Woman.” But Hepburn bucks Fashion Week expectations, falls for Astaire, and gleefully sends up almost every 1950s cliché in the process. This Paris is a beautiful figment of the postwar American imagination made possible by the technological powers of VistaVision.
“Knocks most other musicals off the screen for its visual beauty, its witty panache, and its totally uncalculating charm. The allure is everywhere. Love triumphs over capitalist exploitation, joyless intellectualization and all things phony; and the thesis persuades because of the commitment and skill of the team and the lightness of the underrated Donen’s touch.” - Time Out
“Knocks most other musicals off the screen for its visual beauty, its witty panache, and its totally uncalculating charm. The allure is everywhere. Love triumphs over capitalist exploitation, joyless intellectualization and all things phony; and the thesis persuades because of the commitment and skill of the team and the lightness of the underrated Donen’s touch.” - Time Out