Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Everybody wants to be kissed. Even philosophers.

Funny Face - 6.5/10. It's hard to criticize the movie because it just seems to set up pieces that allow Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn to be on the screen together which, to be perfectly honest, I'm almost perfectly happy with, but there it is, that's all there is to it. A handful of numbers. Fred Astaire seems born under other people's eyes, everything he does with choreography, whistling the same tune in his head when he's just walking down a hallway. One of film's great crimes is giving Audrey Hepburn shit for not providing the singing voice to Eliza in 'My Fair Lady,' and here she's phlegmy but who gives a fuck, really, she's darling. The problem with the movie is they fall in love too soon, and if you were Fred Astaire and if you were Audrey Hepburn, I couldn't blame either one of you, but it comes out of nowhere and they end up not deserving each other's love because they didn't work for it (which is the fault with Brokeback Mountain, though by the end of that one, you end up believing it). And then they stay in love and there's manufactured drama and something, I don't know, whatever, they look cute on screen. It's hard to criticize the movie because it puts everything into what it's got and doesn't try for anything more and those handful of moments that it's got are the reason I love movies and that sort of shit.

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