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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Love in the Afternoon
1957
**
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver, Van Doude, Lise Bourdin

In this adaptation of Claude Anet's novel Ariane, jeune fille russe, a young French cellist finds herself drawn to an American playboy who is visiting Paris. Billy Wilder's romantic comedy has plenty of wit and snappy dialogue, but the romance between an impressionable teenage virgin and a slimy middle-aged womaniser is frankly creepy; their mutual attraction lacks charm and doesn't feels believable. Audrey Hepburn and Cary Copper are both good, though.