Funny Face
'S Wonderful! 'S Marvelous!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 8, 2013
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: Paramount Catalog
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Audrey Hepburn & Fred Astaire | |
Performer: | Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng, Sue England, Alex Gerry & Ruta Lee | |
Directed by | Stanley Donen | |
Edited by | Frank Bracht | |
Music by | George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin | |
Screenwriting by | Leonard Gershe | |
Art Direction by | Hal Pereira & George W. Davis | |
Produced by | Roger Edens | |
Director of Photography: | Ray June |
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 5 -- FUNNY FACE is a visual treat. Technicolor set-pieces showcase the real stars of the picture -- Hepburn's lavish, Givenchy-designed dresses.
Total Film
Rating: 4/5 --
If you're prepared to do a bit of revisionist thinking, it all makes sense.
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London Evening Standard
The film fairly bursts with charm, the Gershwin songs are lively, Paris is as photogenic as ever and the existentialists are grubby to the life.
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The Spectator
George and Ira Gershwin supplied the music and lyrics. Thompson, Astaire and Hepburn supplied the magic.
Wall Street Journal
There is an agreeable springtime-in-Paris flavor to this handsome Hollywood musical co-starring the aging but agile Fred Astaire as a society photographer and Audrey Hepburn as an intellectual chick from Greenwich Village.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 3.5/4 --
...works best if you don't think about the nearly 30-year age gap between the romantic leads.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 5/5 --
What is startling here is the eye-popping colour, the self-reflexive photography and visual effects, the dance sequences (Fred Astaire with his umbrella), and the witty and ingenious use of the Paris locations.
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Independent (UK)
Product Description:
Splashes of vivid color light the way through Stanley Donen's very modern musical. "Think pink!" commands Miss Prescott, head of Quality Woman fashion magazine, and American women obey--all except Jo (Audrey Hepburn), an intellectual young woman who tries to prevent Miss Prescott from staging a photo shoot in Jo's bookshop. Photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) sees something interesting in Jo's "funny face," and soon he's lured her to Paris to model during the day and discuss philosophy in smoky cafés at night. Modeling Givenchy clothes, Hepburn steals the color in every scene, and her funny face enchants all, including Dick and, unexpectedly, the dark and handsome philosophy master whose theories Jo adores.
The musical numbers are primarily duets--Jo and Dick glide together in each other's arms, Jo and Miss Prescott find unexpected solidarity in womanhood, and Dick and Miss Prescott cavort in the philosopher's salon--but the most engaging scene is when the three come to Paris, plead exhaustion to one another, then secretly race around the city, singing and dancing and reveling in being tourists.
The musical numbers are primarily duets--Jo and Dick glide together in each other's arms, Jo and Miss Prescott find unexpected solidarity in womanhood, and Dick and Miss Prescott cavort in the philosopher's salon--but the most engaging scene is when the three come to Paris, plead exhaustion to one another, then secretly race around the city, singing and dancing and reveling in being tourists.
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