Love in the Afternoon

1957 "Love is a game any number can play... especially in the afternoon..."
7.1| 2h10m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 19 June 1957 Released
Producted By: Allied Artists Pictures
Country: United States of America
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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.

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Greenes Please don't spend money on this.
Mjeteconer Just perfect...
Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good
Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!
clanciai For once, Billy Wilder strikes home concerning the music. Usually the music was the weak point in his films, his best films are those without any music, and sometimes his lack of musicality and terrible use of music, sometimes even degrading music itself, ruined the entire picture, like in "The Seven Year Itch" where he vulgarized Rachmaninov almost to prostitution. But here Franz Waxman saves the show and fills the whole picture with not only "Fascination" but with a number of other endearing evergreens as well. It has been pointed out in any number of reviews how Gary Cooper spoils the picture by being miscast, but it's worse than that. His whole character is a failure, and he isn't even convincing as such. Billy Wilder had a penchant for cheap vulgarizations, and here Gary Cooper is the means. They excuse him for being old and sick, he was 56 and Audrey 28, and he had only about 5 years left to live. Here he is an old pathetic playboy, spoiled beyond hope as a millionaire, and Maurice Chevalier is more right about his character than he is aware of. Also Maurice saves the show by turning serious for a change - and saving the situation. Audrey Hepburn, the script and the music save the picture most of all and turn it into perhaps Billy Wilder's most delightful comedy in spite of Gary Cooper's insufficiency. I saw it fifty years ago, but it was a greater pleasure to see it again - especially for the very outstanding music. After all, Audrey Hepburn is here a cellist.And not only Audrey and the music save the picture, but there is John McGiver as well. He would make another decisive appearance in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" as the jeweller, a minor supporting character but the most important spice for the whole film.
nguyenthilanhuong Love in the afternoon! This movie makes me so emotional, and I ended up crying so hard at the end. Firstly, yes, it was such a vivid dream for a girl at the age of 19, trying to impress a millionaire bachelor with an uncountable number of love affairs. The young girl impressed me so much. She has such a beautiful soul and heart, with her kindness showing off in every little thing she does. I can say she is like a lone carnation in between a society that is full of greedy and neglectful people. I love so much the way she lied to him about her numerous number of love affairs, she proves that every one can play little love tricks to get their lovers to fall in love with them, and her stories made me laugh out loud many times. I love how she is fully respectful to the man she loves, that she would rather lie to him so that he can be the way he is than to put him in difficult decisions. Frank - the lead man character reminded me so much of the one I love and our story. In fact, my man said exactly what Frank said to Ariane: "He loves and runs away, lives to love another day". I have to be honest, I disagree with that kind of love, to me it is more like a coward being afraid of getting hurt and decide to just play with love instead of spending time and putting some effort for his love. I have to agree in one thing though: love is just not an easy game to play with, as long as you get addicted to it the loss of it can cause a lot of pain. I did not like Frank's personality, and Gary Cooper did not play the role perfectly either. At the end Frank decided to take Ariane with him permanently, but the actor did not convince me his full motive in doing this. For me it is a bit weird to not admit that he loved her but still took her and married her in the end. For me it was a bit like he felt bad for her and took her for granted. Still, the beauty and love of Ariane did touch my heart. I was so glad that she finally had a happy ending with the man she was in love with (or obsessed by). I am very sympathetic to how she would have felts, and admire her so much for her bravery and awareness of giving the best to the person she loves. A 10-star review for love. It is always worth it for a lovely love story.
mark.waltz Poor Audrey Hepburn. Her waif-like persona keeps the older gentlemen interested, from William Holden and Humphrey Bogart in "Sabrina", Fred Astaire in "Funny Face", Cary Grant in "Charade" and Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady". I guess they feel she needs a father figure. Here, her papa is Maurice Chevalier, playing against type, and very amusing doing so. He's a private detective whose client (John McGiver) discovers his wife is having an affair with an American playboy (Gary Cooper). Hepburn rushes off to warn Cooper that his lover's husband intends to shoot him and as a result falls head over heels for him. This provides the funniest sequence in the film, McGiver's seemingly drunk hubby sneering like Edward G. Robinson has he creeps through the halls of Cooper's hotel. But this is where the amusement ends. The film seems to drag for the next hour and a half as Hepburn pretends that Cooper is only one in a long line of daddy types. She is never convincing in that area, which she isn't supposed to be, and Cooper's befuddled amusement only indicates that he is actually bored.This update of Ernest Lubitsch's 1930's sex comedies provides roles for two stars of some of those films, Cooper and Chevalier. This is basically an update of the character that Cooper played in the film version of Noel Coward's "Design For Living" while Chevalier ("Love Me Tonight", "One Hour With You") takes away the rascally romantic scoundrel and plays a much more serious part. He would return to the old type of roles in his next film with "Gigi". Some people may be put off by Olga Valéry as the hotel guest who keeps spanking her barking dog. She is meant to be comic relief, but the repetitive joke simply goes on too long.I've always been disturbed by the ending, always utilized in Hepburn tributes, which has an air of lechery to it.
J Tegeur This is totally improbable. Today I suspect this movie would not even be made in the US. Cooper looks like he is approaching seventy and Hepburn appears as a teenager. Their relationship today would be considered totally inappropriate. The scene with the husband ready to shoot Cooper is an obvious weak attempt at comedy but comes across as bad farce and is so unbelievable you wonder how the director accepted that part of the script. From there it drags on and on waiting for the final match up with Cooper and Hepburn and the totally unrealistic outcome of marriage. Maurice and Audrey give rather good performances, Gary as usual acts like a wooden door.