Funny Face

Being a wild fan of The Gilmore Girls who are themselves, film watcher extrordinaires, i couldn't not be fascinated with Funny Face after Christopher drove him and Lorelai out to watch it on the side of a barn.

Little did know that just by hearing one of my favourite characters mention this movie that it would hook me like so many other into the wonder that is Audrey Hepburn.

The movie has a very colourful and musical beginning leading up to the main scene where we have fashion publisher Maggie (Kay Thompson) who is searching for the next new style to help boost sales for the magazine she runs. She calls in the aid of famous fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) to brainstorm ideas. They decide on the beautiful but smart look and go in search for the perfect locale to set the theme.

The location happens to be a Manhattan book store where shy but stubborn worker Jo (Audrey Hepburn) tries her best to get the unexpected rowdy bunch of fashionistas out of the shop to no avail. Instead through her rambling, they use her to portray the smart look in juxtaposition to the real model who is portraying beauty. They leave the book store in a mess leaving her to clean up, Dick stays behind to help and finds out that there's more depth to this book store clerk who talks of philosophy and Paris.

Later he goes through the pictures taken and is enthralled by Jo's look calling it new and fresh and so convinces Maggie to make her their main model, but convincing Jo is the real hurdle. Luckily after some  confusion and consideration Dick manages to use the allure of Paris to convince the reluctant Jo to be the new look for Quality Magazine.

Paris being Paris, provides the perfect backdrop for romance fashion and adventure, that will have you wishing you were along for the ride. A perfectly light hearted and entertaining classic that will have you loving the lead starlet and the ending will have you pulling your own teary eyed funny face.