Paris When it Sizzles
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Movie Reviews of Paris When it Sizzles
Movie Review: It's What Happened Off-Camera
Summary: 3 Stars
So...it's not a great movie. It's not Audrey's best. It's not Bill's best. It's not even their "good" or "decent." The script is/was a mess. The director pushed cameo roles onto stars who just visited the set (Tony Curtis, Noel Coward, etc).
So...why the three stars? It's no secret that Holden and Hepburn had fallen for each other years earlier (read the bios). This movie is not for the romantic who wants to see a love story between characters, but the romantic who wants to see a love story between actors. This can even be used as a case study to show when people who love each other work together.
Movie Review: 'Who are you? What do you do? Where do you come from?'
Summary: 3 Stars
Okay, to appreciate this film you have to have the right mind-set going in. It's not a 'classic' Hepburn movie a la 'Roman Holiday', or 'Sabrina', or 'My Fair Lady', although it IS better than 'Green Mansions'! The plot is unimportant, and some of the scenes are just ridiculous; but, that is what makes them fun. The whole movie for me is when they are all in a tiny euro-car driving through Paris, and Audrey Hepburn's 'princess hat' is sticking out of the sun-roof; funny!
I wouldn't spend too much on this one, but it is still a funny, sweet comedy with some great little moments.
Movie Review: Paris When it Sizzles 1964
Summary: 3 Stars
William Holden (1918-1981) portrays a screenwriter with a script deadline in three days . When he ask secretary Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) to help concord ideas , she acts out a potpouri of preposterous plots . Beutifully shot on location in paris by famed Cinematrographer Claude Renoir (1914-1993) and here is another chance to see old Paris from 1963 . Yes , the story and the plot are not the most suspense , but i give a 3 stars for this maybe not the best , but anyway a entertaining movie . High Quality transfer .Movie Review: Spare Us While it Fizzles
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm a big William Holden fan. For a major star of the late 40's and 50's he doesn't have a large stock of motion pictures playing the Late Show or TCM. Thus I watch 'em when I can and I figured "Paris When it Sizzles" would be at least an average Holden-quality movie. Unfortunately, it isn't; at least not by my standards.
The concept is interesting; a once great film writer has a deadline on a script the day after tommorrow and he hasn't even begun. A typist is sent to help him "finish" and after some romantic fencing, they get down to crunch time. Their hasty ideas appear before us on the screen in a wide range of false starts and repeats. Eventually, we have to ask ourselves if they finished their task or was "Paris When it Sizzles" their final script (with the "joke" being on us). Along the way, I found myself caring not so much HOW it was going to end so long as it DID end. Holden has that great glib voice of his but there wasn't much of note coming from it. In the interst of trying to find something positive to say, I'll spare my opinions of Audrey Hepburn. On the positive note, this was one of the best performances I've seen by Tony Curtis. His was the one character that, however briefly, managed to really crack me up.
I've alluded to it earlier and I'll close by stating it more directly; "Paris When it Sizzles" appears to me to be the result of a writer who had to put something together in two days while balancing that time with fun and games.
Movie Review: Paris when it stinks.
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm a fan of Audrey Hepburn and this movie relys heavily - too heavily on her charm. And unfortunately, it is some of her worst acting work, posey, sing-song, and superficial. Now, if you've read her bio, and know what was going on with her and Holden, that could explain it, but still, this film is very static.
Like most Heburn films, a highlight is her clothes, her style, her self. This film self-consciously relys on this when the script itself could simply have been better. There are some very fun cameos by big performers that raise moments here. This film would have benefited greatly by a better comic actress in the lead. Jayne Mansfield could have been a hoot in this, Thelma Ritter too, in a very different way, somebody with less style and more off beat snap, crackle, and pop. (Thelma Ritter and William Holden paired in a romantic comedy... I'm all ready laughing!)
Before I hit this too harshly, this film was intended to be a trifle, the kind of movie that has bright colors and light plot for a hot summer day that sizzles. For that, it is adequate.
The remake, ALEX AND EMMA suffers very much from the same problems. They actually improved the script, and gave the leading lady room to make some very wacky choices, but both films seem to have suffered from "settling for a star" when a less mainstream, more zany actress was needed. OK, this doesn't stink...it has Audrey, but it certainly doesn't sizzle.