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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097361308449
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 02, 2007
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 3390
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: February 13, 1957
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This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star Fred Astaire and several of the original tunes then goes merrily off on its own. Astaire is cast as as fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon the film's 'visual consultant') who is sent out by his female boss Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) to find a 'new face'. It doesn't take Dick long to discover Jo (Audrey Hepburn who does her own singing) an owlish Greenwich Village bookstore clerk. Acting as Pygmalion to Jo's Galatea Dick whisks the wide-eyed girl off to Paris and transforms her into the fashion world's hottest model. Along the way he falls in love with Jo and works overtime to wean her away from such phony-baloney intellectuals as Professor Emile Flostre (Michel Auclair). The Gershwin tunes include the title song 'S'wonderful' 'How Long Has This Been Going On' and 'He Loves and She Loves'; among the newer numbers is Kay Thompson's energetic opener 'Think Pink'. For years available only in washed-out flat prints Funny Face was eventually restored to its full Technicolor and VistaVision glory.System Requirements:Running Time: 103 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 097361308449 Manufacturer No: 130844
Amazon.com essential video:
Fred Astaire plays a fashion photographer based on real-life cameraman Richard Avedon, in this entertaining musical directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). The story finds Astaire's character turning Audrey Hepburn into a chic Paris model--not a tough premise to buy, especially within this film's air of enchantment and surrounded by a great Gershwin score. Based on an unproduced play, this is one of the best films from the latter part of Astaire's career. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - We're simply tourist...
Another fun and cheerful musical, but with a most unusual starring character. Audrey Hepburn is charming and delightful as a philosophical bookworm. I don't buy the romantic relationship between her and Fred Astaire's characters, but Astaire's dancing seems to gloss over that little flaw in the casting. The songs aren't great, but the music helps to keep the story moving. You really have to like the actors in this to enjoy it, because it's not a great story. It's rather sweet and tries to be interesting, but falls short of great. The costumes by Givenchy are incredibly beautiful and Hepburn looks fabulous in them.
Rating:  - Timeless classic
I enjoyed this movie very much, most entertaining, what more could you ask from the everlasting Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astair.
Rating: - Funny Face is a hit
I love this movie. The box came promptly and was factory sealed. The coloring is great not overdone or garish. A must have for any collection.
Rating:  - This face isn't all that funny...
There is no denying that Audrey Hepburn is a charming and endearing actress. Her singing on the other hand is less than phenomenal, so casting her in a musical (which was the big thing to do for a spell) was not the smartest decision to make. Casting her alongside the vocal talents of Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson only further embellished the fact that Hepburn was out of her league so-to-speak. The other problem with `Funny Face' is that even when you strip away the singing segments the story itself is average at best. This is your simple ugly duckling is made pretty and falls in love with the man responsible only to resent him and then fall back in love with him. This is the same formula we see in just about every film in this genre and its Oscar nomination in the writing department is almost as pointless as handing a film like `She's All That' a script nomination.
In all honesty there is no imagination or originality to be found in `Funny Face'.
The story follows bookworm Jo as she meets photographer Avery who thinks that she has the perfect face (albeit funny) for a new line of clothing for the everywoman. After some convincing is done Jo is shipped off to Paris where she is more interested in meeting Professor Emile Flostre than posing for pictures. Before long she falls head over heels for Avery, but his jealousy over the Flostre causes some issues to rise between he and Jo.
Fred Astaire is, in my opinion, a little too old for the part. He looks ... Read More
Rating:  - Girls ... Think Pink!
I have to say that as a once-proud bookstore owner, I was absolutely appalled at the absolute disrespect for private property and the handling of the books and the young Audrey in the film's opening. I cringed for those few moments when she was brushed outside and made to choke on the smoggy air of New York City. The real kick in the pants was when the old dodger Astaire planted a fatty right on the very tame Hepburn kisser. You could be arrested for no less these days, haha.
So, Funny Face is really Ira Gershwin's most impressionable and lasting film? I guess that's not a bad thing. The songs are quaint and a bit cutesy when sung or `spoken' by Audrey, but it's not to their detriment or the song's. The music is what gives the movie some real charm.
"You're not exotic ... but oh, so hypnotic."
Truer words could not have been spoken about Audrey Hepburn as that was honestly her most endearing quality and the reason why we all love her. She, thankfully, wasn't Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra and she wasn't ever Lauren Bacall in the Big Sleep, but closer to that bon vivant feeling that was so evident in the early years of Ingrid Bergman. Notice how I make no modern references when discussing Audrey. I don't think anyone comes close these days, or probably ever will. It's all in shambles now.
Thank god that the French were drinking Absinthe during the Café Scene where she gives her legendary `kitty cat on the prowl dance routine' that always makes ... Read More
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