FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Billy Wilder - Love In The Afternoon 

Someone once wrote that Audrey Hepburn was the last silent movie star because her eyes made it almost unnecessary for her to speak. But Hepburn was much more than that! Even when we started our video store in the early 00s, she was THE role model for style! Women cut their hair the way Hepburn did or decided after "Breakfast At Tiffany's" that one could move to New York after all. My colleague Marie looked like a Hepburn double. When you see her on the screen, the first thing you notice is her physical presence. Her long, distinguished neck, those big eyes and those lips that smiled so much. But Hepburn was a great actress first. She appeared in so many different roles that it seems impossible to reduce her to one type. Often she was cast together with older men. With protectors. Gary Cooper is such a protector. Before that it was Humphrey-Bogart or Fred-Astaire. Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn together in a Billy Wilder film, which was also directed in Paris. What more does it take? Hepburn plays Ariane, a beautiful young girl. Cooper's character is so much older that one might call it dramatic. Ariane lives in Paris with her father Claude (Maurice Chevalier), who works as a detective. In her father's office, she hears about the American Frank Flannagan (Cooper), a romantic lover who has liaisons with married women in French. That's why one of the cuckolded husbands wants to kill him and that's exactly what Ariane Flannagan wants to warn him about. So she sneaks to his hotel room. But of course Ariane Flannagan's charm also succumbs... Ariane is innocent and Flannagan is cunning. He regards women as toys. Or is Ariane not as defenceless as she seems? Hepburn gives her Ariane an innocent glow. Such a shine that only classical Hollywood cinema could produce.