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Title: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'
Release Year: 1961
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Mickey Rooney.
Plot: Holly Golightly is an extravagant woman with a curious life that lives an apparently easy life with her cat. But that life changes when she meets the aspiring Paul Varjak.
Review: In many ways, Audrey Hepburn was herself an anachronism of her age. A symbol of a golden era that no longer existed, she remained as an iconic actress in a changing era. Strangely, I loved her.
Usually I would have hated Holly's kind of character; shallow, leaving an unrealistic life... but Hepburn has demonstrated many times that she's the exception to the rule. Her character is a more-complex-than-it-seems composition; a mix between the lovingly unworried persona she embraces in her everyday life (like when she transmits 'the weather forecast' from a mafia boss in prison to his lawyer) and the real troubled woman that lays behind her skin, wanting so desperately to scape her past that she doesn't allow herself to be really in love, looking for a man between all the 'rats' she goes out with that will bring her the life status she deserves, where she can happily spent her days in her beloved Tiffany's. Yes, I loved her complex yet sweet persona.
Not only did I love the sweet voice of Hepburn singing 'Moon River' in this dreamy scene, but it has been also what I've been listening to during these lasts months while I was doing the project and I got stressed for the enormous quantity of information. Somehow it relaxed me.
And Paul Varjak is the kick in the ass she needs to change. Living a similar situation than her (although it's not specified, it's foreshadowed that he 'satisfies' Emily in exchange of economic support), he decides to the change his way of living and tries to convince Holly to do the same when she decides to go to South-America to find a rich man to marry with. She initially declines his love offer, but suddenly, after Paul gives her a marriage ring and leaves the taxi they were travelling in, she goes outside under the rain and, after finding her beloved cat (which she had previously left in the street), she kisses him as 'Moon River' sounds for the last time. She has finally understod that her love for him is stronger than her need for money and that she deserves to happy and loved. 'Casablanca' may have its fans, but for me 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is the ultimate love story (even if some criticized it for thinking that the stereotypical personification of an asian man by an american actor was racist).
The ending of the movie is beyond perfection. Holly finally escapes her cage in my favourite love scene of all time
Usually I would have hated Holly's kind of character; shallow, leaving an unrealistic life... but Hepburn has demonstrated many times that she's the exception to the rule. Her character is a more-complex-than-it-seems composition; a mix between the lovingly unworried persona she embraces in her everyday life (like when she transmits 'the weather forecast' from a mafia boss in prison to his lawyer) and the real troubled woman that lays behind her skin, wanting so desperately to scape her past that she doesn't allow herself to be really in love, looking for a man between all the 'rats' she goes out with that will bring her the life status she deserves, where she can happily spent her days in her beloved Tiffany's. Yes, I loved her complex yet sweet persona.
Not only did I love the sweet voice of Hepburn singing 'Moon River' in this dreamy scene, but it has been also what I've been listening to during these lasts months while I was doing the project and I got stressed for the enormous quantity of information. Somehow it relaxed me.
And Paul Varjak is the kick in the ass she needs to change. Living a similar situation than her (although it's not specified, it's foreshadowed that he 'satisfies' Emily in exchange of economic support), he decides to the change his way of living and tries to convince Holly to do the same when she decides to go to South-America to find a rich man to marry with. She initially declines his love offer, but suddenly, after Paul gives her a marriage ring and leaves the taxi they were travelling in, she goes outside under the rain and, after finding her beloved cat (which she had previously left in the street), she kisses him as 'Moon River' sounds for the last time. She has finally understod that her love for him is stronger than her need for money and that she deserves to happy and loved. 'Casablanca' may have its fans, but for me 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is the ultimate love story (even if some criticized it for thinking that the stereotypical personification of an asian man by an american actor was racist).
The ending of the movie is beyond perfection. Holly finally escapes her cage in my favourite love scene of all time
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