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| Allied Artists Pictures | Release Date: June 30, 1957 |
Starring:
Audrey Hepburn, Claude Ariel, Elga Andersen, Gary Cooper, John McGiver, Lise Bourdin, Maurice Chevalier, Olga Valéry, The Gypsies, Van Doude
Summary:
She plays the cello. He plays the field. She's coltishly young. He's worldly and mature. Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane (Audrey Hepburn) knows she's not like millionaire American playboy Frank Flanagan (Gary Cooper). But if she pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as he is, maybe the magic of l'amour will take hold.
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This grandly sophisticated romance, which Mr. Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond have penned with a courteous nod to a novel by a Frenchman named Claude Anet, is in the great Lubitsch tradition, right down to the froth on the champagne, with a couple of fine additional "touches" that Mr. Wilder may wholly claim.
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Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 romantic comedy by writer-director Billy Wilder that fondly re-created the atmosphere--the brio, wit, star personality and sardonic joie de vivre--of the great Hollywood-continental comic romances of the 1930s. And there's an obvious reason: It's a tribute from one movie comic master to the man who taught him how to do it. [15 Oct 1997, p.1]
Coop is too long in the tooth as the rich rogue, but Hepburn and the Parisian locales make this worth watching. [13 Feb 1997, p.F43]
It's all meant to be airy and bubbly, but it's obvious, overextended (2 hours plus), and overproduced.
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