Rent Funny Face (1957)
3.5 of 5 from 114 ratings
1h 39min
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- Synopsis:
- In the Academy Award-nominated classic, Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire join forces, lending their song and dance talents to the timeless musical. When a fashion magazine mogul (Kay Thompson) and her head photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) scout out a bookstore for their next photo shoot, Dick discovers the unique face of bookseller and amateur philosopher Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn). Whisked off to Paris, Jo is soon transformed into a global supermodel...and finds herself falling for the photographer who first noticed her sunny, funny face.
- Actors:
- Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng, Dovima, Suzy Parker, Sunny Hartnett, Jean Del Val, Virginia Gibson, Sue England, Ruta Lee, Alex Gerry, Iphigenie Castiglioni, Geneviève Aumont, Fern Barry, Paul Bisciglia, Nesdon Booth, Nina Borget, Jan Bradley
- Directors:
- Stanley Donen
- Producers:
- Roger Edens
- Writers:
- Leonard Gershe
- Others:
- Edith Head, Hubert de Givenchy, George W. Davis, Hal Pereira, Ray Moyer, Sam Comer, Ray June
- Studio:
- Paramount
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Music & Musicals, Romance
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Galleries and Museums in Film: Part 1, Cinema Paradiso's 2022 Centenary Club, Dancing Queens: Guide to the Musical Films That'll, Films & TV by topic, Films by Genre, Fred and Ginger: Duets and Solos, Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Audrey Hepburn, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Bookshop Scenes
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 02/09/2013
- Run Time:
- 103 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, French Dolby Digital 1.0, German Dolby Digital 1.0, Italian Dolby Digital 1.0, Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (1) of Funny Face
Musical Comedy. - Funny Face review by Steve
A musical starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire in a touristic Paris among elite fashionistas... Hepburn wears Ginenchy, Astaire dances with his cane... There are songs by the Gershwins... How can it fail? Well, maybe once upon a time it was a fairytale about a plain, bookish girl who finds love, fame and beauty in one of the great cities of the world...
But, now it feels more about an intelligent girl who is made trivial by being plucked from a Greenwich Village bookshop and strong-armed into becoming a model. Still, Audrey and Paris are beautiful, and Stanley Donan's colourful visuals in Vistavision are vividly chic, so why not just give in to the glamour?
Astaire was 58 when he made this and it's not his best work as a dancer. And he's too old as a lover, for her. But he has some fine songs (including S'Wonderful). It's the vivacious and lovely Audrey who gets the film on its feet. Her dance numbers are actually more fun. There are some amusing sketches, particularly when Fred and Kay Thompson gatecrash a beatnik party.
It's hard to credit Hepburn as the plain Jane of the title, but this is the movies. And she graces the fluff with a sincere performance. The script tries to convince us that the intellectual world is as phoney as high fashion, but that doesn't compute. This is superficial frou-frou that the great stars almost turn into Hollywood magic.
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