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Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, John McGiver

An aging playboy hires a detective to locate a mysterious young woman.

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Unrated, 2 hrs. 6 min.

Directed by: Billy Wilder

Release Date: January 1, 1957

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  • benjaminguilbert2
    August 18, 2008
    benjaminguilbert2
    The most romantic film ever. And so much fun as well. Billy Wilder imitates Lubitsch to the perfection. Of course there are sometimes some lack of rhythm. But it may even be better like that, you can't laugh for 2 hours straight, it may be dangerous for your heart.
    On top of that...( read more) there is a truly perverse twist in this film. Hepburn is 19 while Cooper is at least 45 or 50.But ultimately they don't have an age, they are Hollywood stars.
  • groaningbitch
    November 5, 2007
    groaningbitch
    it's more of a billy wilder satire on the modern-day american don juan who's infatuated with the parisian transiet romances without commitments than just an audrey hepburn romantic classic. as "sarbrina", hepburn plays an ingenune (again!) falling for the upper-class playboy gary...( read more) cooper. obeserving senile cooper frivolously flirts with youthfully fair hepburn leaves you peculiarly wondrous about his attraction to her...

    a daydreaming schoolgirl who reads adultery cases as touching romantic stories decides to meet the "authentically fictional character" she's read about all her life in her father's "library". she's like a bored junvile who relishes her drably dry life with aficinado-alike enthusiasm toward romantic illusions ...one day she rushes to rescue her dream character from being slaughtered in the hotel room just to preserve her romantic illusions from being obliterated, then as her dream man kisses her randomly, her heart is taken away for good.

    the character of cooper's mr. flannagan is wilder's mockery to americanism: he's an egoistic arbitrary man in his elder years but romances like an adolescent boy who flatters himself for being "the one who loves and runs aways but lives to love for another day", besides there's no really love except the temporal conquests of excitements, but after his purpose's served, those women are littered like disposable goods. his americanistic naivety obscures such cruelty in his mindset since he always assumes that he could pop in like pepsi cola without giving himself away to anyone out of his self-protective bachelor selfishness.

    as one dialogue from arianne filled with acid tongue:
    ""They're very odd people, you know. When they're young, they have their teeth straightened, their tonsils taken out and gallons of vitamins pumped into them. Something happens to their insides! They become immunized, mechanized, air-conditioned and hydromatic. I'm not even sure whether he has a heart"".....""What is he? A creature from outer space?""..."no, he's an american."

    the irony is that she has to fake to be something she's totally not just to gain his interests for her or arouse his jealousy or shake his pride as retribution by also belittling him as some conquered object without too much worth....the whole flick is more bittersweet than romantic....she's secretly bewailing his casanova fickleness but meanwhile she has to conceal her frailty then comes up with new strategies to stir him...he's utterly fascinated by her becuz of her reluctance to bare herself that stimulates his wishes to penetrate or explore her mystery that she's aware of as well....two are toying with some psychological guerrila, attempted to break through each other's fence....her relationship with flannagan is built upon these provoking deceptions to shield her true helplessness in a world filled with disillusions....as for mr. flannagan, it's more out of morbidly shallow curiosity to dig the truth out of her as trophy.

    the movie is so bitterly cynical at its pinnacle as the detective father advises flannagan to cut arianne loose when flannagan's about to dismiss him by money then shocked by the fact that he's her father "give her a break, monsieur, she's too young, don't dump her in the gutter like the rest of others"..then flannagan silences with the implicit shame toward his own immorality....it's also agonizing at most when she pursues after the train perilously and tells those tall tales of affairs to him with yearning tears in her eyes while he's standing at the traingate shamefully aware that she only loves him and there's never been another man, out of his frivolosity, she has to lie to be with him...then eventually our don juan has decided to be a mensch that is almost surprisingly moving.

    furher, the white carnation hepburn takes from cooper's jacket is the blatant symbol of the purity of a girl's first love, and she even freezes it in the icebox girlishly as if she wanna restore what she has had with him even she's conscious that it's an un-requited love only from her side since mr. flannagan is disabled to love....it's so realistically tragic but intoxicatingly sorrowful as a girl's first love...even somehow this love only exists in the afternnon...with the fetching waltz of "the fascination"....
  • mjgildea
    November 22, 2006
    mjgildea
    Old men with little to no personality ogling Audrey Hepburn freaks me out.
  • Fragglefreak
    July 29, 2008
    Fragglefreak
    Probably one of the lesser films for either Billy Wilder or Audrey Hepburn.
  • dizzynorman
    November 27, 2009
    dizzynorman
    Neither Wilder nor Hepburn's finest hour. There's nothing blatantly wrong about this movie, but nothing outlandishly right either. It plods predictably along, without any of the zaniness or drama that it could have put to good use. It's like an afternoon...long and lazy.
  • killantzb4itzl8
    August 27, 2009
    killantzb4itzl8
    An Audrey Hepburn classic.

    Ariane Chavasse: They're very odd people, you know. When they're young, they have their teeth straightened, their tonsils taken out and gallons of vitamins pumped into them. Something happens to their insides! They become immunized, mechanized, air-co...( read more)nditioned and hydromatic. I'm not even sure whether he has a heart.
    Michel: What is he? A creature from outer space?
    Ariane Chavasse: No. He's an American.
  • Soundsofmadness
    March 28, 2009
    Soundsofmadness
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • rnhanke
    February 4, 2009
    rnhanke
    This is a classic that every Audrey Hepburn fan should see.
  • pjupitermoon
    September 8, 2008
    pjupitermoon
    Gregory peck meets Audrey hepburn, truly a magical moment i time and space
  • hypathio7
    July 23, 2008
    hypathio7
    nominated for best picture at the golden globes

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  • CiaSki
    October 24, 2006
    CiaSki
    I'm slowly dying without this in my DVD player....
    *choke*
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