It wasn’t the norm to shoot musicals overseas, far from a Hollywood soundstage. But for portions of Funny Face, Stanley Donen, Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire went to Paris. Loosely inspired by Richard Avedon and his wife, the film tells the story of a fashion photographer and a New York intellectual who reluctantly travels to Paris for a modeling job but really goes to study the philosophy of “empathicalism.” A dynamic synthesis of fashion, bodies in motion, and real locations captured in vibrant Technicolor and VistaVision, the film confirms that the late Stanley Donen was one of Hollywood’s greatest stylists. (1957, dir. Stanley Donen, DCP, color, 103 min.)

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