Always wonderful to hear Gershwin music. Yet this film tries my credulity: Astaire was 58 when the 1957 movie was released; Audrey Hepburn 28; they were paired romantically, a concept that really does not work all these many years later. 30 year difference; did it ever work? The music is good. Paris look great. Cliches abound: swans and white doves are merely the beginning; berets, smoky clubs, syrupy accents. Still, buy the premise, buy the film. If you analyze it, you ain't gonna enjoy it. Just suspend cynicism. It does work. Audrey Hepburn dancing bebop, beatnik dance; Astaire doing softshoe; they are wonderful. Kay Thompson, an actress I did not know, and an actress who made very few films (four?) does a really nice job.
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