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A glossy, high-energy Technicolor musical with standout choreography, Parisian fantasy, and Audrey Hepburn’s effortless screen presence. The romance is the weakest part, but the visual design, dance numbers, and fashion-world satire make it a classic worth seeing.
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Wed · 1h 43m
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
Stanley Donen
Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson
A glossy, high-energy Technicolor musical with standout choreography, Parisian fantasy, and Audrey Hepburn’s effortless screen presence. The romance is the weakest part, but the visual design, dance numbers, and fashion-world satire make it a classic worth seeing.
Funny Face is at its best when it turns into a moving fashion editorial: bold color, crisp compositions, and dance numbers that feel designed to show off fabric, space, and motion. Stanley Donen keeps the film buoyant and playful, and the Paris sequences give it a dreamy, aspirational glow that still lands decades later.
Audrey Hepburn is the center of gravity here, balancing awkwardness, elegance, and comic timing in a way that makes the character’s transformation feel charming rather than mechanical. Fred Astaire brings polish and ease, though the romance between them is more functional than electric, and the film is happiest when it leans into style, performance, and wit instead of courtship.
The first half is especially strong, with the bookstore-to-fashion-world contrast giving the movie a lively sense of discovery. If you come for the songs, choreography, and visual invention, it delivers beautifully; if you come for a convincing love story, it may leave you wanting more.
sai (4★) · 4899 likes
if audrey hepburn has a "funny" face what does that make my face
Michał (4.5★) · 4762 likes
i was enjoying this so much until audrey hepburn kissed fred astaire's old shrivelled face and i felt attacked
Mercedes (3.5★) · 2818 likes
This could be so much better if there wasn’t any romance: astaire and hepburn don’t share any chemistry, the romance itself is rushed, doesn’t make sense and honestly isn’t romantic in the slightest, and it’s not what the film should be about. The first portion of this film is absolutely fantastic. Amazing music numbers and choreography, the songs are good, and the colours! the cinematography! everything about it is perfect and unique. However, the last half of the film really… more
mia lee vicino (3★) · 2725 likes
the Look of the Day is audrey hepburn in a black turtleneck interpretive dancing in a parisian beatnik night club
luana (5★) · 1796 likes
I’m calling anyone who annoys me a ‘hostile vibration’ from now on
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