I don't know how I missed it all of these years...an absolutely delightful fairytale romance. Two lovely drifters, in search of ...actually just in search..... she, free spirited and wild, and he more sober and grounded. Both adrift in the sixties of glitzy New York. He of course, the first to convert.
It's classic enough to have shades of My Fair Lady and Roman Holiday, not just because of Audrey Hepburn, but in the deeper layers of honesty and vulnerability that are hidden, and only occasionally make themselves visible under the tough exterior of situation and survival.
Holly (Audrey Hepburn) is a cafe society girl, not exactly a hooker, but pretty close. She's snazzy and sophisticated (on the outside) and she's always escaping these men who she calls rats, using them till she needs, but not beyond.
The movie starts with her in this iconic black dress, from which I understand came the LBD (little black dress) which is that one dress when you wear, no matter what you're feeling inside, you can face the world with confidence.
Paul is a writer with one published book, and hasn't written in five years. He's just moved to New York and is involved ( rather kept) by this rich woman who he calls his decorator.
I loved the scene when he says there's something stopping him writing, and Holly decides it's a type writer ribbon and gets him a spool.
It's days of the typewriters and phone booths, and it can't but bring back the days of when your only contact was that blessed landline, and all you could do is call and wait, or rather keep calling.
Holly and Paul quickly become friends, and remain friends through all her efforts at finding that one right (rich) guy, until of course it reaches it's fairytale romantic end. An end that was so beautifully done that it can't help but touch even the most cynical or sceptical.
For a die hard romantic like me, it just took me into another zone :)
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