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Love in the Afternoon

United States

1957

130 Min
Black and White
1.85:1
French, English
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DIR Billy Wilder

PROD Billy Wilder

SCR Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond

DP William C. Mellor

CAST Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Van Doude, John McGiver, Lise Bourdin, Olga Valéry

ED Léonide Azar

Synopsis

In Paris, detective Claude Chavasse is hired to follow a wife suspected of infidelity with the notorious American libertine Frank Flannagan. When the husband learns that his suspicions are accurate, he tells Claude of his plan to kill Flannagan. Claude’s daughter Ariane overhears the threat and warns Frank of the coming trouble. She then plays the part of a worldly socialite with a list of conquests as long as Flannagan’s. The bemused ladies’ man returns to America the next day and Ariane, completely in love, follows his romantic escapades in the news. She sees him again in Paris the following year, and resumes her worldly guise, telling tales of former lovers when they meet at his hotel in the afternoon. Frank, amazed by the mystery girl and surprised to find himself jealous of her past, hires Claude to uncover more information about her. When the detective realizes what has happened, he asks Frank not to break his daughter’s heart. —IMDb

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Billy Wilder

Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city’s largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929, and wrote scripts for many German films until Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. Wilder immediately realized his Jewish ancestry would cause problems, so he emigrated to Paris, then the US. Although he spoke no English when he arrived in Hollywood, Wilder was a fast learner, and thanks to contacts such as Peter Lorre (with whom he shared an apartment), he was able to break into American films. His partnership with Charles Brackett started in 1938 and the team was responsible for writing some of Hollywood’s classic comedies, including Ninotchka (1939) and Ball of Fire (1941). The partnership expanded into a producer-director one in 1942, with Brackett producing, and the two turned out such classics… read more

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Liga dos Blogues Cinematográficos

26May13

Discípulo e fã confesso de Lubitsch, em AMOR NA TARDE Billy Wilder lhe faz sua maior homenagem, inclusive se utilizando de dois atores que trabalharam muito bem com seu mestre (Gary Cooper e Maurice Chevalier), e com uma atriz como Audrey Hepburn que não o fez por uma infelicidade temporal, mas que dominava como nenhuma outra o timing de uma comédia romântica. Lubitsch teria se orgulhado do resultado | Marcelo Rennó

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Electrus Amadeus Magnus

10Dec12

Wilder's Belle de Jour. Bad copy of The Divorce of Lady X. Even Audrey can be a slut. When Wilder gone bad, he really sux.

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Pedro Zambujo

18May12

Cooper's age is the big problem here, but I still find that ending absolutely wonderful.

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