Breakfast at Tiffany's

Media:	DVD
Directed by:	Blake Edwards
Starring:	Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard
Release date:	29 December, 2004
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Breakfast at Tiffany's

Average rating: Stars

Beneath the appearances!

This smart film behind the seductive music, the rapture scenes along the most visited places of this monumental city, the imminent love affair, and the charismatic presence of the everlasting bride of Hollywood - the unforgettable Audrey Hepburn - is not a simple love story.
The story is painful and merciless, he is a pimp and she sells sexual favors, they have to live to keep their right to dream, but the charm and the captivating storytelling makes you at the end of the movie tend to forget the dramatic departure' s point.

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard

girl trouble?

If Helen of Troy possessed the face that launched a thousand ships, the young Audrey Hepburn must have been good for, say, nine hundred?

From the moment she steps out of the yellow New York cab in front of Tiffany's, Hepburn dazzles, supported by the sturdy performance of George Peppard, who is the sensible foil to her zany role as Holly Golightly. Peppard's Paul also makes his entrance by alighting from a yellow cab, but that is the last time he and Holly have anything in common in this film. 'Good thing opposites attract.

I bought this DVD because I was born too late to know Hepburn in her glory days, and I wanted to understand her mystique. Glory endures, and Breakfast at Tiffany's showcases not only Hepburn's flair for romantic comedy and witty one-liners, but also her darker side. In spite of the fact that the genre assures you that things will turn out well, Holly Golightly's self-destructive side is authentically troubling as you make your way to the predictable dÃ©nouement.

Holly can't think of anything she's never done. Still, her light touch and random quirks - she leaves her apartment's mailbox slight ajar, for it warehouses the perfume and the mirror she needs as she leaves to fulfill her duties as what today we would describe as a call girl - make her more than a workaday social climber. 'I do not accept drinks from disapproving gentlemen' is one of her tenuous claims to dignity as she strives to figure out who she really is, now that she's 'not Lula Mae any more'.

Peppard's performance falls short of great acting, but if Hepburn needed a solid backdrop for her star turn, she found it in Peppard. Half-way through the film, one finds oneself liking both of these characters: the safe, stolid one who is indeed a man that's 'kept by a woman' and the crazy 'real phony' - that's a good thing, in light of the alternatives - who is Hepburn's Holly.

Hepburn has a lighter touch elsewhere, but Breakfast is worth anybody's viewing as a standard piece in an immortal actress' repertoire and a period piece of 1960s Americana. I recommend it heartily.

Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Audrey's Iconic Role

Based on Truman Capote's slight but popular novel, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" tells the story of free-spirited, enchanting callgirl, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) living in a studio in Greenwich Village and the "kept" man, struggling writer and upstairs neighbor Paul Varjack (George Pepard) who falls in love with her.

Two words: Audrey Hepburn. Even if not a Hepburn fan, it's hard to deny the thousand watt charisma, sparkle and sheer charm of Audrey Hepburn. She lights the screen with her smile like no one's business with her radiant inner and outer beauty (rumor has it she was as terrific offscreen as on). She's simply magical. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is iconic Audrey. Here her gamine form is in all its chic "little-black-dress-and-pearls" splendor, her look still admired and copied and not even threatening to date. Admittedly, the script takes great liberties with Capote's original story, but it doesn't matter. Hepburn's elegance succeeds in making this a romantic and touching treat, full of great moments that would not have existed had she not been the star.

The most poignant moment is when Hepburn signs Henry Mancini's "Moon River." It's incredibly moving and romantic. And yes, Mickey Rooney does impersonate a Japanese man in a way that is less than flattering, but look, Rooney came from a background of vaudeville where broad stereotype was the norm for people of all races (ever see the Swedish farmer's daughter stereotypes that were prevalent in this same time period?). There are plenty of people who portray an ethnicity that they are not (that's why it's acting) and it shouldn't be an issue if they pull it off well as in "Charlie Chan" where the portrait was good. Rooney is obnoxious, but his cameo is not enough to mar the overall charm of this film. Forget Andy -- it's Audrey's show.