Funny Face

1957 Directed by Stanley Donen

'S Wonderful! 'S Marvelous!

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

Audrey Hepburn Fred Astaire Kay Thompson Michel Auclair Robert Flemyng Dovima Suzy Parker Sunny Hartnett Jean Del Val Virginia Gibson Sue England Ruta Lee Alex Gerry Bess Flowers Iphigenie Castiglioni Bert Stevens Harold Miller Franklyn Farnum Brandon Beach Carole Eastman

Alternative Titles

Das rosarote Mannequin, Una cara con angel, 파리의 연인, Amo París, Usměvavá tvář

comedy romance music

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Review by brat pitt ★★★

the Look of the Day is audrey hepburn in a black turtleneck interpretive dancing in a parisian beatnik night club
Review by Michał ★★★★½ 2

i was enjoying this so much until audrey hepburn kissed fred astaire's old shrivelled face and i felt attacked
Review by sai ★★★★ 1

if audrey hepburn has a "funny" face what does that make my face
Review by michelle ★★★★½ 1

I don't understand how someone can be so beautiful.
Review by Marian ★★★★★

what i would give to pull off a turtleneck this well
Review by iana ★★★½ 1

suspension of disbelief was created when conventionally attractive woman audrey hepburn played someone with a funny face (still in love with her tho)
Review by Fedra K. ★★ 1

"Are you suggesting that Flostra's interest in me is anything
but intellectual?"
"He's about as interested in your intellect as I am."
Oh well, that makes you such a better candidate then.
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★

55/100
Insane casting here, as many have observed, since Hepburn never looks anything but stunning; the idea that anyone would see her in her "dowdy" bookstore getup and think "no model she" is beyond laughable. Nor is there even the vaguest sexual or romantic chemistry between her and Astaire (though maybe that's a blessing, given the 30-year age difference)—it's not so much "How Long Has This Been Going On?" as "What's Going On." (Mercy mercy me. Make me wanna holler.) And the whole empathicalism plot is just dopey, as opposed to silly. Yet the film is still sporadically enjoyable, if only because everybody throws themselves so wholeheartedly into the musical numbers, which Donen stages (as ever) with maximum respect for…
Review by mercedes ★★★½ 3

This could be so much better if there wasn’t any romance: astaire and hepburn don’t share any chemistry, the romance itself is rushed, doesn’t make sense and honestly isn’t romantic in the slightest, and it’s not what the film should be about.
The first portion of this film is absolutely fantastic. Amazing music numbers and choreography, the songs are good, and the colours! the cinematography! everything about it is perfect and unique. However, the last half of the film really drags it down and lowers its charm. It becomes less about the music, the story, and Jo Stockton, and more about the non existent romance and jealousy between audrey hepburn and a man 30 years older than her. They would’ve been much better off as friends, it felt like that’s practically all they were anyway.
Review by Sally Jane Black 2

This is how you use color.
The pink doors give the room depth. The bright green and yellow in the bookstore pops and lets you see Audrey Hepburn dance, move, in spite of her costume's affinity for the background. The hazy smoke of the cafe obscures the blues and blacks of the room. The umbrella as Fred Astaire's dance partner makes him so visible. This is how you wield color to control the audience's attention, to paint your scenery, to give your setting life. As spectacle, this film is perfect.
As any kind of social commentary, it's horrible, of course. Makeover movie with Audrey Hepburn as the target (why the fuck would anyone think her face is funny?!?!) is just silly, and about anyone it would be offensive. The regressive gender bullshit, the patronizing way Astaire treats her, it's unforgivable, but at least she gets to smash a sexist dude over the head with a vase.
Review by lauren ★★★★ 2

the funniest thing about funny face is that anyone could view audrey hepburn's face as funny
Review by russman ★★★

A librarian's worst nightmare. That's days of reorganizing

Recent reviews

Review by Letícia Miyuki ★★★

Ela lindíssima e uma velho feio tóxico mds
Review by Grace Krynicki

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

An enchanting, gorgeously choreographed, and expertly shot film, Funny Face isn't a very deep musical yet obviously has had immense thought and dedication put into it. In many ways, it rather reminded me of the fashion magazine industry it displays: beautiful, a labor of love, but not too thoughtful or impactful, in the long run. (Not to say the fashion industry is like that, of course, but in this film, it certainly is.) Audrey Hepburn shines here, as always, playing a less-elegant character than usual, but classy as ever. She displays her dancing prowess in several genres and tempos, and even to an un-classy, untrained eye like mine that hasn't the faintest idea of what makes good dancing, her passion…
Review by SUJIN_ ★★★★

당신의 밝고 재미있는 얼굴이 좋아요.
Review by olivia ★★★★

if u see me dropping out of med school to move to greenwich village and run my little book shop and be pretty and then go to paris to wear pretty clothes and tell ppl to have empathy..... no u didn’t 💕💅🏻
Review by Sophie P

god she’s just so cool
Review by Emily Schirmer ★★★

This is Devil Wears Prada in an age where the fashion industry was only just beginning to really blossom. Ready-to-wear had only been widely prevalent in America and Europe for a few decades at this point, so high fashion was still very inaccessible to the majority of the western world. Obviously fashion magazines were still in a somewhat primitive state, so it’s really surprising how little has changed in terms of satirizing the fashion world and its moguls in the past seventy years (which this movie does astoundingly well).
Visually this movie is astonishingly gorgeous; the colors are so vibrant and the costumes are genuinely remarkable. Anyone who’s into vintage fashion (or fashion in general for that matter) will get…
Review by liv ★★½

if by "funny face" you mean alluring appealing charming cute dazzling delicate delightful elegant exquisite fascinating fine good-looking gorgeous graceful grand handsome lovely magnificent marvelous pleasing pretty splendid stunning superb wonderful admirable angelic beauteous bewitching classy comely divine enticing excellent fair foxy ideal nice pulchritudinous radiant ravishing refined resplendent shapely sightly statuesque sublime symmetrical taking well-formed face than SURE.
*** all credit for this review goes to thesaurus.com *****
Review by Aliah Santos ★★★★½

Fred Astaire looks like Audrey's uncle than her lover in this but I'm willing to ignore that because this is hella entertaining and stylish
Review by charleeta

D for Down, D for Dreamy, D for Dull and Depressing, Dismal and Deadly
For Audrey Hepburn, colors and 'funny' dancing: 3. 1/2 for uncomfortable address to woman and BOOKS.
Review by Erick Pessoa ★★★★½

What a delightful movie! Besides the fact it’s virtually impossible to understand why such a gorgeous woman like Hepburn would end up with Astaire, maybe because he is an wonderful dancer. So nice to see Paris from 1957. Not even to address the incredible costume designs with the incredible multi Oscar winner Edith Head and the master Givenchy dressing Hepburn when she is in Paris, which it was a first ever in Hollywood. A delight to the eyes. Quick sidetrack; so funny to see how Americans saw Parisians in the 50s; rude, horny and overly philosophical. 🥰
Review by selin ★★★½

Miss Audrey is so charismatic...so charming.....so enchanting..... I adore her 🥺
Review by st_konstantine ★★★½

if audrey's face is funny, what about fred's?