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VHS : Love in the AfternoonIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver, Van Doude directed by: Billy Wilder  List Price: $14.98 Price: $7.51 You Save: $7.47 (50%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790741123 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC ISBN: 0790741121 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: April 27, 1999 Running Time: 130 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 30, 1957 Sales Rank: 14673 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Fairy-tale Paris doesn't get more enchanting than Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon, an ode to picnics on the grass and champagne at the Ritz. Audrey Hepburn (who had already made Sabrina with Wilder) is at her best as the inexperienced cellist with a fascination for millionaire American playboy Gary Cooper. Maurice Chevalier (who else?) is Hepburn's father, a private detective with ample evidence of Cooper's crowded history of l'amour. Alongside the sheen of the romance is Wilder's unerring sense of craftsmanship; watch how inanimate objects such as a liquor tray, a white carnation, or the little dog in the suite next door are developed into sublime running gags. The age difference between the two leads has often been questioned, but perhaps this is what gives the gossamer material the whiff of welcome melancholy. The final three minutes leave no doubt that Wilder hatched the best endings in Hollywood history. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - incredible waste of time - VERY datedThe wisdom of Amazon kept recommending this to me. Why - because I bought Two For The Road several years ago?? That purchase was based on love of that film and its timeless reflection on love/marriage. Love in the Afternoon cannot be compared in any way save for the presence of the lovely Audrey Hepburn. She shines in both films but the latter doesn't come close to being saved by her inclusion. Gary Cooper - are we kidding? Who in the name of William Shatner (an Olivier by comparison) ... Read More Rating:  - Afternoon Delight that is 'ALL-RIGHT'Gary Cooper has always been the perfect guy to me. I was skeptical about the somewhat coolish Audrey Hepburn playing opposite the Coop-man. My fears were unfounded. They are able to project a definite chemistry on film. It is a sweet romance--she, as a cellist has a crush on the much older playboy. Is it strictly a sweet romance? No. There is plenty of humor in this. One of my favorite scenes is the one in which the innebriated Cooper keeps pushing the service cart back and forth, as he is in ... Read More Rating: - SUPERB !!!Both Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn are superb in this story of falling in love and unknowingly being in love. It is beautifully and tenderly acted and lived. It is well-filmed in black-and-white. It could have used some of Hayley Westenra's recordings as background music. Maurice Chevalier does an excellent job of playing Audrey's father and narrator filling in pieces of the story. Rating:  - A film that gets better as it goes along.At first I thought I would be disappointed in Billy Wilder's "Love in the Afternoon." The first half plays like tired Parisian boulevard comedy, with little spark or interest, despite Wilder's direction and screenplay and the presence of Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier and especially the always delightful Audrey Hepburn. In the second half, however, the film's wit becomes sharper, and its emotion deeper. That's because Wilder, that sly old fox, allows the film to build as its characters' emotions change, and ... Read More Rating: - Now I Get ItThis film is definitely understood better with age. When I first saw it I was 16, and falling in love with Gary Cooper seemed yucky. All these years later, I look beyond that bit of miscasting and I get it: she grew up around adults, preferred their company, and was a hopeless romantic. He was a wealthy womanizer who longed for the purity and innocence she represented; he would have never considered marrying the experienced women he seduced. The story of how they finally get together is truly a delightful ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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