Funny Face by Leonard Gershe - Nine out of 10

Funny Face by Leonard Gershe

Nine out of 10

There are some ways one can look at this film and for maximum pleasure and bliss, perhaps the best would be to concentrate on the majestic, seraphic, sublime and divine Audrey Hepburn, one of the Goddesses of Cinema, who has the ability to carry this motion picture and any other for that matter – see Charade http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/03/note-on-charade-with-audrey-hepburn-and.html - Breakfast at Tiffany’s - http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/12/breakfast-at-tiffanys-based-on-novel-by.html - or Pygmalion - http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/06/pygmalion-by-george-bernard-shaw.html to be perfectly edified...

On the other hand, there is the issue of Fred Astaire – seen in On the Beach http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/06/on-beach-based-on-novel-by-nevil-shute.html - who might be a glorious dancer – indeed, he is – but seems inadequate as the ‘leading man’, at least to this inept viewer, who still thinks that the actor in the leading role, in a romantic movie, would better have the looks of Brad Pitt or Leonardo DiCaprio, though Astaire was a gentle, average looking, kind, but unattractive (?) man, who seems inappropriate to the Aphrodite of the big screen, although this is surely a wrong assessment and a biased, stupid note…

The motion picture is included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list - https://www.listchallenges.com/new-york-times-best-1000-movies-ever-made/list/8 , but if you ask me, it is due to the presence, the aura, the persona of Audrey Hepburn…