FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE THE BEST MOVIES IN OUR VIDEO STORE PT.10 Stanley Donen - Charade 

Here the last sparks of classic Hollywood glow! Shortly before the audience should finally turn away from stars like Cary Grant, we experience a perfect old-school thriller here. A perfect Hitch_cock movie Hitch_cock never made! In 1963, just a few weeks after the Kennedy assassination, Charade was released in cinemas. During the dark days of America. On the screen: Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn - perhaps the two most attractive stars ever to perform together? In addition a score by Henry Mancini and in the background the glamour of Paris. If the world outside had gone crazy, Hollywood remained true to itself in Charade! Venerable Pauline Kael wrote at the time: "I couldn't persuade friends to go to see Charade, which although no more than a charming confectionery trifle was, I think, probably the best American film of last year." For her, Charade had to be everything she loved and hated about Hollywood: Charade is wonderfully frivolous and vulgar at the same time! When the sexual revolution began, Hollywood was on its last legs back in 1963. Several deaths were caused by television or the new wave in Europe. Last but not least, the guards of the old stars retired. Grant and Hepburn took sooo long to finally play together - and never did it again (once you read it, a remake of "Notorious" was planned, which was never realized). Grant, with his legendary irony, seems to be himself here - although we sometimes have the feeling that he is standing beside himself and delivering a self-persiflage). Besides Hepburn with her own seriousness - paired with her gift as a comedian! how often does seriousness turn to silliness here? Director Stanley Donen actually delivered a suspense screwball comedy. Humour and violence alternate. Sometimes Charade seems as light as Hitch_cock in his best days, then again very gloomy. Charade offers a plot with numerous side plots and a Cary Grant that constantly changes its identity. Four times in total! Sometimes the killer Grant (who remembers early Hitch_cock roles) looks over the charmer's shoulder. But what is the basis of truth? Love! Especially in a world full of thieves and scammers! A world you can't trust! Both stars, Grant and Hepburn, live off their naturalness. Charade asks us: How can we even know if someone is lying to us? Can we trust Grant's character? Hepburn, on the other hand, always played the child with the funny face that turns into a beautiful woman, only the right light falls on her. Throughout her career she was given the right to "remake" her role from "Sabrina". But something is new in Charade, because for the first time you see her ageing and the big age discrepancy between Hepburn and her older co-star doesn't seem so significant anymore. Cary Grant retired from the screen in 1966, Audrey Hepburn played successfully throughout the 60s. In all their roles, one may ask oneself whether the world was not a better one with the artificial studio films brand "classic Hollywood"? This celluloid world, that's Charade! 113 minutes of adventure and true love! Charade is obsessed with beauty. Grant and Hepburn, two Europeans in Paris, make an essential Hollywood movie! While we see him, we remember with some sadness the greatness of old Hollywood, the faded miracle of American beauty...