Paris When It Sizzles
Published September 2, 2023
Film info
- Title Paris When It Sizzles
- Director Richard Quine
- Year 1964
- Run time 1hr 50m
- Genres Romance, Comedy
- Tagline Go absolutely ape in...
William Holden portrays a screenwriter with a script deadline in three days. When he asks secretary Audrey Hepburn to help concoct ideas, she acts out a potpourri of preposterous plots.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 5:13 | “This means vous. And vous too!” |
| 11:21 | Love his breakdown of a movie! |
| 18:24 | Well, she’s bubbly. |
| 19:23 | Haha, that is Sinatra singing it. |
| 19:42 | “…interminable list of other credits.” Tell me about it! |
| 36:22 | Is that was serendipity means? |
| 39:07 | “If I was good, I was allowed to feed the giraffes.” Weird sentence. |
| 49:58 | If it was this easy to write a scrappy old screenplay, we’d all be doing it. |
| 56:54 | Art imitating life… but you can’t trust anything in this movie. |
| 57:24 | “Unfortunately Miss Simpson, we’re not writing a musical.” |
| 1:12:58 | Omg, did they know she was doing My Fair Lady? They came out the same year. |
| 1:21:20 | “After our parcheesi game this afternoon, I’m yours forever and ever.” |
| 1:31:38 | Quite enjoying Maurice/Philippe in the ’non-taxing role of second policeman.' |
| 1:41:01 | They have used the word ingenuous a lot in this film. |
| 1:50:01 | “Two enormous and highly-paid heads…” Haha! |
Thoughts
This is such a fun movie and you can just tell how much Audrey Hepburn is enjoying playing the part and jumping about through all the different movie genres. It’s a clever premise and really sweeps you up to start with, although I think it gets a bit repetitive towards the end, you sort of just want to know where they’re going to end up and to keep reversing in time ends up a bit frustrating.
But they’re great together, and it’s a great satire of so many film tropes that it’s definitely worth a watch.
Rating: 3 / 5