Love In the Afternoon (Region 1 DVD)
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Description
She plays the cello. He plays the field She's coltishly young. He's worldly and mature Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane knows she's not like millionaire American playboy Frank Flanagan. But if she pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as he is, maybe the magic of I'amour will take hold May-December romance is in bloom when Billy Wilder directs and Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper meet for Love in the Afternoon. Laughs, Parisian settings, champagne elegance; Wilder, in his first collaboration with longtime co writer I.A.L. Diamond, delivers them all in a souffle light homage to his filmmaking idol Ernst Lubitsch, punctuating it by casting Lubitsch alumnus Maurice Chevalier, the cinema's ambassador of Gallic charm, who smoothly plays Ariane's detective father.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 888574100025
- Department
- Movies & TV
- Released
- 28 Oct 2014
- Type
- Movies
- Format
- DVD
- Genre
- Comedy
- Sub-genre
- Comedy
- Region
- Region 1
- Studio
- Warner Archives
- Age Restriction
- NR
- Supply Source
- USA
Movie
- Tagline
- Love is a game any number can play... especially in the afternoon...
- Release Year
- 1957
- Running Time
- 130 min
- Color
- B&W
- Categories
- Comedies / Essential Cinema / Recommended / Romance / Vintage / Crime / Dramas
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
- Budget
- $2.1 million
- Revenue
- $2 million
- Ratings
-
- IMDb
- 7.2
- Rotten Tomatoes®
- 85%
- The Movie DB
- 71%
- Overview
- Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.
- Synopsis
- Another May-December romantic comedy from Wilder starring Audrey Hepburn, this one pairs her with Gary Cooper in the City of Lights. Ariane Chavasse (Hepburn) is the daughter of a private detective (Maurice Chevalier), who has been hired by Mr. X, (John McGiver), a suspicious husband, to find out who his wife (Lise Bourdin) is seeing on the side. When he discovers the woman in the grip of millionaire playboy Frank Flannagan (Gary Cooper), he informs the predictably livid husband who loudly announces his intention to kill the interloper while Ariane is eavesdropping. She rushes off to warn Flannagan of his impending demise, which begins a series of afternoon meetings where she adopts the pose of a jaded lover and woman of the world. Intially amused by the ingenue's charade, the middle-aged roue gradually becomes interested in the young woman, and after she disappears, becomes obsessed with finding her. After he unwittingly tells the story to the girl's father in a steam room, the detective agrees to help Flannagan find her. Wilder's sophisticated romantic fable, shot in spectacular Parisian locations, including the Opera and the elegant Chateau de Vitry, is nearly stolen by Chevalier as the protective pere.
- Notes
- Cary Grant was Billy Wilder's first choice for Gary Cooper's role.
The film includes a brief appearance by Billy Wilder's wife, Audrey, as Cooper's date at the opera.
- Release Notes
Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Region [unknown]
- Note: Includes Theatrical Trailer
- Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono - English
- DTS HD Master Audio - English
- Subtitles - English
- Poster
- Videos
- Trailer
- Billy Wilder - Love in the Afternoon (1957) Trailer
- Cast & Crew
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Star
- Audrey Hepburn / Maurice Chevalier / Gary Cooper / John McGiver / Van Doude
- Co-Star
- Lise Bourdin / Olga Valery / Jean Ozenne / Paul Bonifas / Moustache
- Screenwriter
- I. A. L. Diamond / Billy Wilder
- Source Writer
- Claude Anet / Author: Claude Anet
- Composer
- Franz Waxman
- Producer
- Billy Wilder
- Director of Photography
- William C. Mellor
- Editor
- Leonide Azar
- Production Designer
- Alexandre Trauner
- Costume Designer
- Hubert de Givenchy / Jay A. Morley
- Movie Critics
- Sight and Sound
- "[T]he daydream texture gives a hallucinatory clarity to a scenario worthy of Bunuel's later films."— Nick James (1 Feb 2004, p.69)
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