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love in the afternoon Billy Wilder United States , 1957 It's the first movie on which Wilder worked with the screenwriter I. A. L. Diamond, and the force of the collaboration shows; the writing has a coruscating wit that plays out more gracefully than did the scripts of Wilder's earlier films, and Wilder's direction expands and lingers more ...
Synopsis. Love is a game any number can play… especially in the afternoon…. Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold. Remove Ads. Cast.
Critics reviews. Director Billy Wilder salutes his idol, Ernst Lubitsch, with this comedy about a middle-aged playboy fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.
33 Films x 6 Decades: 1950s Ranked: Billy Wilder Often cited as a lesser work by Billy Wilder that was made after the exhausting and serious film The Spirit of St. Louis to provide Wilder with some deserved rest, Love in the Afternoon is still better than most directors could ever come up with. Pairing together Audrey Hepburn in her late 20s with a 56 year-old Gary Cooper, Love in the ...
Synopsis. Ariane Chavasse (Hepburn) is the daughter of a private detective (Maurice Chevalier), who has been hired by Mr. X, (John McGiver), a suspicious husband, to find out who his wife (Lise Bourdin) is seeing on the side. When he discovers the woman in the grip of millionaire playboy Frank Flannagan (Gary Cooper), he informs the predictably ...
Love in the Afternoon. 73 Metascore. 1957. 2 hr 10 mins. Comedy. NR. Watchlist. Director-cowriter Billy Wilder's comedy of errors follows a May-December romance between a young Parisian woman ...
