Shown: January 1, 2020 at 6pm
Director : Stanley Donen
Country : USA
Release Date : 1957
Duration : 103 mins
Language : English
Subtitles : No
Fred Astaire is fashion photographer Dick Avery (based on Richard Avedon) who is sent out by his female boss to find a “new face”. It doesn’t take Dick long to discover Jo (Audrey Hepburn), an owlish Greenwich Village bookstore clerk. Acting as Pygmalion to Jo’s Galatea, Dick whisks the wide-eyed girl off to Paris and transforms her into the fashion world’s hottest model. Along the way, naturally, he falls in love with her …
The Gershwin tunes include the title song, ‘S’wonderful’, ‘How Long Has This Been Going On’ and ‘He Loves and She Loves’; among the newer numbers is Kay Thompson’s camp and energetic opener ‘Think Pink’. For years available only in washed-out, flat prints, Funny Face has been restored to its full Technicolor and VistaVision glory which we will screen.
“A timeless musical treat and the most fun you can have with really elegant clothes on.” (David Parkinson – Empire Magazine)