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Funny Face

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Funny Face (1957)

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Reviews Counted:21

Fresh:18

Rotten:3

Average Rating:7.5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Synopsis: Splashes of vivid color light the way through Stanley Donen's very modern musical. "Think pink!" commands Miss Prescott, head of Quality Woman fashion magazine, and American women obey--all except... Splashes of vivid color light the way through Stanley Donen's very modern musical. "Think pink!" commands Miss Prescott, head of Quality Woman fashion magazine, and American women obey--all except Jo (Audrey Hepburn), an intellectual young woman who tries to prevent Miss Prescott from staging a photo shoot in Jo's bookshop. Photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) sees something interesting in Jo's "funny face," and soon he's lured her to Paris to model during the day and discuss philosophy in smoky cafés at night. Modeling Givenchy clothes, Hepburn steals the color in every scene, and her funny face enchants all, including Dick and, unexpectedly, the dark and handsome philosophy master whose theories Jo adores. The musical numbers are primarily duets--Jo and Dick glide together in each other's arms, Jo and Miss Prescott find unexpected solidarity in womanhood, and Dick and Miss Prescott cavort in the philosopher's salon--but the most engaging scene is when the three come to Paris, plead exhaustion to one another, then secretly race around the city, singing and dancing and reveling in being tourists. [More]

Starring: Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Kay Thompson, Suzy Parker

Starring: Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Kay Thompson, Suzy Parker, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng

Director: Stanley Donen

Director: Stanley Donen
Producer: Roger Edens
Composer: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Roger Edens, Leonard Gershe

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Reviews for Funny Face

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Kevin Carr

Of her iconic films, Hepburn shines the most in Funny Face by focusing on what makes her beautiful.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 05 2009 10:15 AM

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Mark Bourne

...can clunk like a tin can in the dryer. But hey, we're talking Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, so that's some mighty elegant slack we're willing to cut here.

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Ryan Cracknell

Despite some memorable musical numbers, gorgeous sets and energy galore, there's something about Funny Face that wasn't working for me, and it wasn't just the absurd idea about Audrey Hepburn being a frumpy bore.

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John J. Puccio

I didn't appreciate every song-and-dance sequence, yet I could hardly keep my eyes off the screen for all the showy merriment going on.

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Emanuel Levy

One of Stanley Donen's most stylish and enjoyable films, this musical is a triumph for Astaire's spectacular dancing, Audrey Hepburn's elegant appearance, and the Gershwins splendid score.

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Paul Brenner

one of the finest movie musicals of all time.

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John Thomason

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Orlando Weekly

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Eric Henderson

The Devil may wear Prada, but the rest of the fashion world wears pink, at least according to Stanley Donen's endearingly naive Funny Face.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 29 2007 06:43 PM

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Combustible Celluloid

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Las Vegas Review-Journal

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Ken Hanke

One of the best 1950s musicals.

comment Comment | Aug., 14 2003 06:13 AM

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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A film crucial to understanding Hepburn's glorious gamine appeal and one of Astaire's best musicals of the 1950s.

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Michael Szymanski

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comment Comment | Jul., 09 2003 03:18 PM

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