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Funny Face

Funny Face

Music · Comedy · Romance · 1957

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

Movie details

Funny Face

“S'Wonderful! S'Marvelous! ...She's The Fairest Lady of All!”

1957 Music · Comedy · Romance 1h 43m

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7.0 / 10

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A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Stanley Donen

Written by

Leonard Gershe

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn

Jo Stockton

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

Dick Avery

Kay Thompson

Kay Thompson

Maggie Prescott

Michel Auclair

Michel Auclair

Prof. Emile Flostre

Robert Flemyng

Robert Flemyng

Paul Duval

Dovima

Dovima

Marion

Suzy Parker

Suzy Parker

Specialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)

Court is in session

Put Funny Face on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.