Love in the Afternoon (2002)
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Director:Billy Wilder
Studio:Warner Home Video
Writer:I.A.L. Diamond
Rating:4.0 (69 votes)
Date Added:2010-02-17
ASIN:B00005RRK0
UPC:9780790753003
Genre:Comedy
Release:2002-01-08
Location:0725
Duration:130
Picture Format:Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
Sound:Dolby Digital 1.0
Languages:English
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Features:Black and White
Billy Wilder  ...  (Director)
I.A.L. Diamond  ...  (Writer)
 
Gary Cooper  ...  
Audrey Hepburn  ...  
Maurice Chevalier  ...  
John McGiver  ...  
Van Doude  ...  
Summary: Fairy-tale Paris doesn't get more enchanting than Billy Wilder's "Love in the Afternoon", an ode to picnics on the grass and champagne at the Ritz. Audrey Hepburn (who had already made "Sabrina" with Wilder) is at her best as the inexperienced cellist with a fascination for millionaire American playboy Gary Cooper. Maurice Chevalier (who else?) is Hepburn's father, a private detective with ample evidence of Cooper's crowded history of "l'amour". Alongside the sheen of the romance is Wilder's unerring sense of craftsmanship; watch how inanimate objects such as a liquor tray, a white carnation, or the little dog in the suite next door are developed into sublime running gags. The age difference between the two leads has often been questioned, but perhaps this is what gives the gossamer material the whiff of welcome melancholy. The final three minutes leave no doubt that Wilder hatched the best endings in Hollywood history. "--Robert Horton"