A pleasure it is to see Audrey Hepburn romp through this film with style AND her own voice. A witty spoof of the fashion industry, with Broadway legend Kay Thompson hamming it up as a magazine executive singing "Think Pink" as she plans a marketing promotion. "I wouldn't attempt to tell a woman what a woman ought to think, but tell her if she's gotta think, think pink!" Alive with the fashions of the 1950s, the film pairs Hepburn with Fred Astaire, 30 years her senior, and you can almost buy it, especially when they dance, largely because of Astaire's charming screen presence. Other numbers to look for: Hepburn, after the fashion magazine staff invades her bookstore, singing "How Long Has This Been Going On?" Astaire singing the title song in his photographer's dark room, and the upbeat, romantic, and undeniably charming "Bonjour Paris" as the bookstore clerk begins transforming into a fashion model. Music and lyrics are by the unbeatable George and Ira Gershwin, culminating with "'s Wonderful." Main drawbacks: the movie spends an inordinate amount of time satirizing the existentialist philosophers and artists of the day and fusses excessively over the deep meaning of Astaire's true love for this young girl. ---from Musicals on the Silver Screen, American Library Association, 2013
Review of Funny Face
