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Love in the Afternoon
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790753003
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790753006
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: D17218D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 08, 2002
Running Time: 130 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 30, 1957
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Editorial Review:
Fairy-tale Paris doesn't get more enchanting than Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon, an ode to picnics on the grass and champagne at the Ritz. Audrey Hepburn (who had already made Sabrina with Wilder) is at her best as the inexperienced cellist with a fascination for millionaire American playboy Gary Cooper. Maurice Chevalier (who else?) is Hepburn's father, a private detective with ample evidence of Cooper's crowded history of l'amour. Alongside the sheen of the romance is Wilder's unerring sense of craftsmanship; watch how inanimate objects such as a liquor tray, a white carnation, or the little dog in the suite next door are developed into sublime running gags. The age difference between the two leads has often been questioned, but perhaps this is what gives the gossamer material the whiff of welcome melancholy. The final three minutes leave no doubt that Wilder hatched the best endings in Hollywood history. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - SUPERB !!!
Both Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn are superb in this story of falling in love and unknowingly being in love. It is beautifully and tenderly acted and lived. It is well-filmed in black-and-white. It could have used some of Hayley Westenra's recordings as background music. Maurice Chevalier does an excellent job of playing Audrey's father and narrator filling in pieces of the story.
Rating:  - A film that gets better as it goes along.
At first I thought I would be disappointed in Billy Wilder's "Love in the Afternoon." The first half plays like tired Parisian boulevard comedy, with little spark or interest, despite Wilder's direction and screenplay and the presence of Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier and especially the always delightful Audrey Hepburn. In the second half, however, the film's wit becomes sharper, and its emotion deeper. That's because Wilder, that sly old fox, allows the film to build as its characters' emotions ... Read More
Rating: - Now I Get It
This film is definitely understood better with age. When I first saw it I was 16, and falling in love with Gary Cooper seemed yucky. All these years later, I look beyond that bit of miscasting and I get it: she grew up around adults, preferred their company, and was a hopeless romantic. He was a wealthy womanizer who longed for the purity and innocence she represented; he would have never considered marrying the experienced women he seduced. The story of how they finally get together is truly ... Read More
Rating: - Billy Wilder's little jokes on Gary Cooper
I enjoyed Love in the Afternoon for all the reasons the other writers here have. But here is another aspect to it: I think Billy Wilder was having a good time making fun of Gary Cooper.
In his mid 50s, Coop was bedding the likes of Anita Ekberg and Gina Lollabrigida - likely they were younger even than Audrey Hepburn at the time. On at least one occassion, paparazzi had followed Coop to Ekberg's apartment and spied on the couple with binoculars (time the lights went on, went off) just ... Read More
Rating:  - Granddad gets his
I'm sorry, but as much as I adore Audrey and as much as I adored (note past tense) Gary, by the time he made this movie, he looked like he needed to be dusted off and Audrey still had the ingenue, stick-figure, innocent doll look. I almost upchucked when he kissed her. I am well aware there are many, many older men/younger women romances. I don't have anything against them, per se, but WHAT is it that she would have seen in him... except his wrinkles? I know I'm being cruel, and I'm no spring chicken, ... Read More
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