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Funny Face (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby TrueHD )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Japanese ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
103 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1957 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Stanley Donen

Written By:
Leonard Gershe

Actors:
Audrey Hepburn ..... Jo Stockton
Fred Astaire ..... Dick Avery
Kay Thompson ..... Maggie Prescott
Michel Auclair ..... Prof. Emile Flostre
Robert Flemyng ..... Paul Duval
Dovima ..... Marion
Suzy Parker ..... Specialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)
Sunny Hartnett ..... Specialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)
Jean Del Val ..... Hairdresser
Virginia Gibson ..... Babs
Sue England ..... Laura
Ruta Lee ..... Lettie
Alex Gerry ..... Dovitch
Iphigenie Castiglioni ..... Armande

Synopsis:

Photographer Richard Avedon was both a visual consultant on Funny Face and the inspiration for Astaire's debonair character in Donen's charming Pygmalion tale of an intellectually-minded shop girl transformed into a glamorous fashion model by Astaire and a Diana Vreeland-esque magazine editor - played by the irrepressible Kay Thompson, who gleefully steals her every scene. The purest expression of Donen's inimitable musical style, Funny Face is simultaneously joyful and elegant, sentimental and funny, lavish and restrained. The film's expressive color palette, stunning widescreen compositions and wonderfully evocative set design culminate in a giddy montage sequence of the transformed Hepburn modeling Givenchy's latest styles across a dream-like Paris.

Fashion photographer Dick Avery, in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo session is over the store is left in a shambles, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton's dismay. Avery stays behind to help her clean up. Later, he examines the photos taken there and sees Jo in the background of one shot. He is intrigued by her unique appearance, as is Maggie Prescott, the editor of a leading fashion magazine. They offer Jo a modeling contract, which she reluctantly accepts only because it includes a trip to Paris. Eventually, her snobbish attitude toward the job softens, and Jo begins to enjoy the work and the company of her handsome photographer.

Story of a photographer who discovers a beautiful young girl working in a Greenwich Village bookshop, transforms her into a fashion model and whisks her off to Paris to make her fortune.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 06 July, 2012.

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