Today's Audrey movie is "Charade". This is one I have rented and renewed at least three times and never got around to watching it, don't know why!! So I decided to just get it over with, so I can have something to wrote about. Sorry for missing a day, I would have finished the movie yesterday, had it not been so late at night!!
"Charade" came out in 1963. Reggie Lambert is played by Audrey Hepburn, a woman who goes skiing in the Alps. There, she meets a man, played by Cary Grant. This man's name is Peter Joshua---OR IS IT? (Cue suspense music, dun, dun DAAAA!)
Upon returning home from her ski trip, Reggie finds her home ransacked and removed of all belongings, she finds out that her husband is dead! Not only this, but apparently, her husband had a fortune (unbeknowest to Reggie) and a gang of no goods are on the hunt for it! They think that she has it, now she is in trouble. So Peter decides to help her. This triggers a series of very strange events (see for yourself) and Peter Joshua is not who he says he is. Is this man a Peter, an Alexander, an Adam, or possibly a Brian? I feel so bad for Audrey in this movie because the woman is being confused, yet again. I shall leave you in the dark about the rest of this caper.
The score was done by Henry Mancini. Mancini did a lot of Audrey movie scores (see "Breakfast At Tiffany's", "Wait Until Dark") and it is very good. I am really growing fond of his beautiful sound tracks, the man is up there in my book with Herb Alpert!
This is an interesting film, not only is it suspenseful and stylish (all Audrey movies are full of classy style), but it can be funny at parts too. Not a lot, but very subtle. Audrey wears more Givenchy, it seems that Givenchy did a lot of her movie wardrobes. If it is not broken, why fix it? :)
This is back when women used to dress nice when they went put. Of course nice these days is having all your clothes on in a decent non messy fashion, nice is not pajama pants and a sweatshirt in public. But back then, nice happened when the ladies wore their hats and gloves. That went out in the 70s, I believe. I don't think I have seen any later photos of Audrey in gloves. I guess she wore them when they were in.
I often wonder, if Audrey was born in the age of Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Lawrence, what kind of movies would she have been in? Thank God she was born when she was, things might have been quite different! What do you think? Let me know!
It's been so long since I saw Charade I really don't remember much about it. Perhaps I'll watch it again to refresh my memory :) I think we talked about my other favorite Audrey movies, Sabrina, Roman Holiday, and The Nun's Story, you MUST see all of those!
ReplyDeleteI just got "The Nun's Story"!! You should see this again. I will review in a few days! :)
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