Love in the Afternoon (1957)
Country: US
Technical: bw 120m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver
Synopsis:
A private detective specialising in marital indiscretions has a daughter who plays cello at the conservatoire and takes, or so he thinks, an unhealthy interest in his case histories. An interest which remains, however, academic until she sets eyes on the likeness of his latest third party, an American playboy whose life is immediately in danger from the vengeful husband.
Review:
There is not a little of Sabrina knocking around in this second teaming with Hepburn, except that here the ingénue must play at being as promiscuous as Cooper's roué if she is going to achieve some kind of parity in their relations. Coop is of course far too old, just as Bogart was, but that was the way then; more to the point he isn't quite right for the part - Grant would have been better - though he does a pretty fair job. It is Hepburn who again proves her mettle as an actress who could balance the pathetic and the comic so tellingly that she provides the perfect foil for the sexist values the film has such fun pushing and then subverting.
Country: US
Technical: bw 120m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver
Synopsis:
A private detective specialising in marital indiscretions has a daughter who plays cello at the conservatoire and takes, or so he thinks, an unhealthy interest in his case histories. An interest which remains, however, academic until she sets eyes on the likeness of his latest third party, an American playboy whose life is immediately in danger from the vengeful husband.
Review:
There is not a little of Sabrina knocking around in this second teaming with Hepburn, except that here the ingénue must play at being as promiscuous as Cooper's roué if she is going to achieve some kind of parity in their relations. Coop is of course far too old, just as Bogart was, but that was the way then; more to the point he isn't quite right for the part - Grant would have been better - though he does a pretty fair job. It is Hepburn who again proves her mettle as an actress who could balance the pathetic and the comic so tellingly that she provides the perfect foil for the sexist values the film has such fun pushing and then subverting.
Country: US
Technical: bw 120m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver
Synopsis:
A private detective specialising in marital indiscretions has a daughter who plays cello at the conservatoire and takes, or so he thinks, an unhealthy interest in his case histories. An interest which remains, however, academic until she sets eyes on the likeness of his latest third party, an American playboy whose life is immediately in danger from the vengeful husband.
Review:
There is not a little of Sabrina knocking around in this second teaming with Hepburn, except that here the ingénue must play at being as promiscuous as Cooper's roué if she is going to achieve some kind of parity in their relations. Coop is of course far too old, just as Bogart was, but that was the way then; more to the point he isn't quite right for the part - Grant would have been better - though he does a pretty fair job. It is Hepburn who again proves her mettle as an actress who could balance the pathetic and the comic so tellingly that she provides the perfect foil for the sexist values the film has such fun pushing and then subverting.