Funny Face (50th Anniversary Edition)

Funny Face (50th Anniversary Edition)
by Stanley Donen

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Actor: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng
Director: Stanley Donen
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Ray June
Editor: Frank Bracht
Producer: Roger Edens
Writer: Leonard Gershe
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Portuguese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount

Movie Reviews of Funny Face (50th Anniversary Edition)

Movie Review: If you must think, think Pink.
Summary: 4 Stars

Was ever an actress more elegant than Audrey Hepburn?

Several years ago The Gap used a sequence from this movie with Audrey Hepburn dancing, as part of an ad campaign. You can see it on you tube.

It occurs about 45 minutes into the movie. In addition there's the darkroom dance with Fred Astaire a little earlier, and the sequence with Kay Thomas about 1hr 12 in, I like the oo ee oo bit.

What amazed me was how brilliant a dancer she is. In fact, she excels next to Fred Astaire, arguably the best on screen dancer ever.

Fred Astaire's character Richard Avery is based on real life photog Richard Avedon, who photographed Monroe, Chaplin, and Hepburn during his illustrious career.

I don't think you will remember this movie for it's musical numbers apart from maybe 'S Wonderful. Audrey's presence elevates this movie above the ordinary. The other notable effect is the freeze frame effect used, it manages to capture her perfectly every time. In addition, the playing around with light and color by the director is very cool.

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Summary of Funny Face (50th Anniversary Edition)

This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire, and several of the original tunes, then goes merrily off on its own. Astaire is cast as as fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon, the film's "visual consultant"), who is sent out by his female boss Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) to find a "new face". It doesn't take Dick long to discover Jo (Audrey Hepburn, who does her own singing), an owlish Greenwich Village bookstore clerk. Acting as Pygmalion to Jo's Galatea, Dick whisks the wide-eyed girl off to Paris and transforms her into the fashion world's hottest model. Along the way, he falls in love with Jo, and works overtime to wean her away from such phony-baloney intellectuals as Professor Emile Flostre (Michel Auclair). The Gershwin tunes include the title song, "S'wonderful", "How Long Has This Been Going On" and "He Loves and She Loves"; among the newer numbers is Kay Thompson's energetic opener "Think Pink". For years available only in washed-out, flat prints, Funny Face was eventually restored to its full Technicolor and VistaVision glory.

Fred Astaire plays a fashion photographer based on real-life cameraman Richard Avedon, in this entertaining musical directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). The story finds Astaire's character turning Audrey Hepburn into a chic Paris model--not a tough premise to buy, especially within this film's air of enchantment and surrounded by a great Gershwin score. Based on an unproduced play, this is one of the best films from the latter part of Astaire's career. --Tom Keogh

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