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Coffee Mall - Love in the Afternoon
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $15.99
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver, Van Doude
Directed By: Billy Wilder
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790753003
Format: Anamorphic
ISBN: 0790753006
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-01-08
Running Time: 130
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1957-06-30
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Naive cellist audrey hepburn develops an interest in amorous magnate gary cooper. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/05/2005 Starring: Gary Cooper Maurice Chevalier Run time: 130 minutes Rating: G Director: Billy Wilder
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Summary: love in the afternoon
Comment: Audrey Hepburn, always lovely, couldn't possibly have fallen for a man who looked as old as Gary Cooper. Apart from that, I thought the supporting actors were good, the script was good, the directing was good. Too bad about Gary Cooper.
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Summary: incredible waste of time - VERY dated
Comment: The wisdom of Amazon kept recommending this to me. Why - because I bought Two For The Road several years ago?? That purchase was based on love of that film and its timeless reflection on love/marriage. Love in the Afternoon cannot be compared in any way save for the presence of the lovely Audrey Hepburn. She shines in both films but the latter doesn't come close to being saved by her inclusion.
Gary Cooper - are we kidding? Who in the name of William Shatner (an Olivier by comparison) ever considered him an ACTOR?? His wooden, plodding recitation of lines was a hideous waste of time, energy and celluloid. I can understand a town full of people planning his demise at high noon.
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Summary: Afternoon Delight that is 'ALL-RIGHT'
Comment: Gary Cooper has always been the perfect guy to me. I was skeptical about the somewhat coolish Audrey Hepburn playing opposite the Coop-man.
My fears were unfounded. They are able to project a definite chemistry on film. It is a sweet romance--she, as a cellist has a crush on the much older playboy. Is it strictly a sweet romance? No. There is plenty of humor in this. One of my favorite scenes is the one in which the innebriated Cooper keeps pushing the service cart back and forth, as he is in a blue funk and self-medicating to the max. It is a classic. The great scene however is the ending scene in which they have split up and she runs after the train. He comes to the doorway of the train and sweeps her onboard, sensually cementing their relationship for good. This scene rivals the beach scene in From Here to Eternity (Lancaster, Kerr) in sexiness. A great and scintillating movie. The interiors are elegant.
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Summary: SUPERB !!!
Comment: Both Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn are superb in this story of falling in love and unknowingly being in love. It is beautifully and tenderly acted and lived. It is well-filmed in black-and-white. It could have used some of Hayley Westenra's recordings as background music. Maurice Chevalier does an excellent job of playing Audrey's father and narrator filling in pieces of the story.
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Summary: A film that gets better as it goes along.
Comment: At first I thought I would be disappointed in Billy Wilder's "Love in the Afternoon." The first half plays like tired Parisian boulevard comedy, with little spark or interest, despite Wilder's direction and screenplay and the presence of Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier and especially the always delightful Audrey Hepburn. In the second half, however, the film's wit becomes sharper, and its emotion deeper. That's because Wilder, that sly old fox, allows the film to build as its characters' emotions change, and expects the audience to have the patience to sit still and watch.
I don't understand the general criticism of this film, that Cooper was too old for Hepburn. It was typical throughout Hepburn's early career to pair her with much older leading men (Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, William Holden, Fred Astaire) who brought her delicate, pensive, Cinderella qualities out in bas-relief. Hepburn has better chemistry with Cooper than she did with the notoriously prickly Bogart in an earlier Wilder film, "Sabrina," and--as other reviewers have noted--Wilder has some pointed fun with both Cooper's age and his well-deserved offscreen reputation as a womanizer. Notice that Wilder doesn't shoot Cooper in close-up until the last half-hour of the film, bringing his wrinkles and his general air of exhaustion to the forefront. This has great power, for it shows the previously carefree playboy in all his world-weariness, finally ready to admit that one woman has irrevocably won his heart.
Much of "Love in the Afternoon" isn't as good as it should be, but the last half--and particularly the last five minutes--make the film worthwhile. Just have the patience to go with it.
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