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| Year of first release: 1961 | |
| Director: Blake Edwards | |
| Actors: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Comedy | |
| Conditions of visioning: 01.12.2012, DVD, OV | |
| Synopsis: Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly's lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when they're alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses. | |
| Review: The story based on a novel by Truman Capote is simple but intriguing, as the really charming character of Audrey Hepburn. It is a picture of the social life in a new-rich society. Many characters are caricatures, and the three main roles are fully visible via their clothes, their objects, in particular the two women, who are financially independent. In this sense, the movie is giving to women a position they barely had before. The music, the camera are like easy-listening, so that we can focus on Holly Golightly |
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Rating: 6 /10
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
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Your review makes me want to watch the movie, on a day when I will be in a mood for old classics.
ReplyDeleteFollowing your review I watched the movie on 01.07.2013 in Blu-ray on my Home cinema.
ReplyDeleteImage and sound quality are very good, which is important for this movie that often focuses on actors and their faces.
I was quite surprised about the whole story, in which there is never any classy breakfast as shown on the cover picture! We rather follow the life of the young woman in New York that makes her way and earns her living only by knowing important people, and she is good at finding them! Audrey Hepburn's character is cute and looks 20 years-old, so I thought the description of all the events in her life in the movie was unrealistic, but I checked and the actress was actually 30 at the time of the shooting!
What surprised me most is the description of her life of partying and drinking (in particular the wild scene of party in her appartment in which everyone is getting drunk and kissing each other, almost an orgy). I don't think it was common to show this in a movie of the early 60's. This is maybe the difference between what was called the New-York cinema and the Hollywood one.
But why did they give the charater of the Japanese neighbourg to an American actor? With his fake teeth, hair, stretched eyes and overplayed manners he looks too much of bad cliché.
Oh by the way, same rating for me 6/10.
ReplyDeleteI fully agree on the very bad cast for the Japanese neighbour. Ridiculous! But they did a very good catch with Audrey Hepburn
ReplyDeleteYep, Audrey Hepburn was the perfect cast. She didn't do many other known movies actually. I have seen she played Hap in Always from Spielberg.
ReplyDeleteAbout the asian character, it turns out to make quite a fuss. I have watched the documentary on the Blu-ray entitled Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective and leaned that a "yellow face" character means an asiatic people played by an american actor. It was quite common but specially strikes in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. The story of "yellow faces" in American cinema is quite interesting.