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Plot: An aging playboy hires a detective to locate a mysterious young woman.
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MCT:August 18, 2008
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 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. -
MCT:April 15, 2008
I laughed more at this film than any Wilder film this semester. The whole thing about Gary Cooper looking so incredibly old became an obsession of mine when I was watching. By the end, I almost convinced myself I too could be in love with him, but only because I can project his younger self onto him and all his Gary-Cooper-ness: his star image.
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MCT:January 14, 2008I loved this movie for its playfulness, coyness and romantism... If only real life was as "cute and sweet."
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MCT:January 4, 2008
Wonderful romantic comedy with Audrey Hepburn as a lovestruck conservatory student who pretends to be just as much a cosompolitan love for millionaire American playboy.
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MCT:November 5, 2007it'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 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".... -
MCT:October 17, 2007
Absolutely adorable! A really cute and fun comedy that, while doesn't feature the trademark Billy Wilder wit, stands up on its own, particularly with the contrived love story... Coop and the eternally divine Audrey Hepburn are marvellous in it. My only problem with the film is that it looked like, for once, I was watching a classic romance with the WOMAN being somewhat the ruler of the relationship... and then over the last ten minutes or so it turns. But oh well, it's still lovely.
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MCT:August 1, 2007I think I'll watch it, even though I've heard sad things about the terrible miscasting of Gary Cooper. They kinda look odd, standing there together on the picture, no?
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MCT:July 23, 2007Ok, she was chasing a player! There's nothing romantic about that! It gets the extra half-star for the good ending and just because Audrey's so cute. But I dunno, she's kinda losing my respect...
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MCT:June 20, 2007
Gary Cooper, Maurice whatsisname, and, that's right, Audrey Hepburn!
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll lean over and kiss your neighbor...this is Hollywood at its best. -
MCT:May 5, 2007
LOVED this movie - it's next on the purchase list. Very Romantic - had to put my make-up on again after viewing it. Audrey Hepburn is just exquisite!
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MCT:March 23, 2007
When Audrey Hepburn looks at Gary Cooper and says, "I'm susceptible"- it melts me! You must see this movie
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MCT:March 21, 2007Sadly, I felt this film is Billy Wilder's weakest that I've seen. Hepburn's innate sweetness and charm is the only thing that kept me watching. The idea in the plot has potential but the complete lack of chemistry and terrible miscasting of Cooper cannot be overlooked. It is hard to believe that he is a multiple Oscar winner from watching his drab, sour performance. I totally did not feel anything for him and DIDN'T want Audrey to end up with him. I couldn't see what her character would like about him. He's a total playboy and doesn't really seem changed after meeting her. Skip this movie and go to Some Like it Hot instead, or some of Audrey's others.
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MCT:February 13, 2007
A French private-eye is hired to keep watch on a wealthy American businessman cavorting with someone else's wife in Paris. What the detective doesn't know is that his young daughter has been eavesdropping, and, intrigued by the American's activities, she sets on a mission to masquerade herself as a wealthy girl of many lovers in order to fall to his charms.Very romantic , very awesome .
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MCT:January 1, 2007
Ugh. So frustrating. If only Wilder had gotten Cary Grant instead of Gary Cooper this could have been one of his best movies. As it stands now its firmly in the middle of his cannon. Cooper is creepily too old for Hepburn (a problem Bogart had in Sabrina). But the gags, characters, dialogue and love scenes in and of themselves are great.
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MCT:May 23, 2006
An other black& white movie, this is when Audrey was quite young but her acting is humerous and therefore I recommand it.
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