Tasteful trash from 1956 starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. The plot is weak and the characters change course every few scenes, there's not exactly any sense of peril, and some of its politics are questionable/ confused. What it thinks it is trying to say about existentialism is beyond me.
Hepburn of course looks beautiful, charming, and the (perhaps underexploited) camerawork shows this well at times. We may have an auteur trying to get out. Hepburn is however not a great singer, rather sreaching, though kudos for her dancing.
The above criticisms all rather fade when one sees this film is all about the set piece song and dance numbers which, if not memorable, are decent enough. Fred Astaire has a couple of moments where his genius is left to show, though he is generally under used.
Not a fascinating film, there are worse ways to pass one hundred minutes thanks to its snappiness and pleasant numbers (the title song is really quite decent) but far from a classic.
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