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Love in the Afternoon (1957). Monsieur X (John McGiver) hires the best private eye in Paris, Claude Chavesse, to spy on his wife Josephine whom he suspects is having an affair with an American playboy Frank Flanagan (Gary Cooper). Claude does the job and confirms that Josephine is, indeed, carrying on a love affair Frank. Monsieur is in a fit of jealous rage, takes out his gun, and vows to go to the Hotel Ritz to kill his wife and this gigolo whom she's carrying on a secret tryst with.
Chavesse's young daughter Ariane (Audrey Hepburn) is spying on the whole incident in her room and hurries to the Hotel suite 14 at once to warn Flanagan and Josephine that Monsieur X knows of the love affair is coming to kill them both. She tells Josephine to get out and she will substitute herself for Josephine and pretend to be Flanagan's fling for the night. When Monsieur X shows up and finds out that isn't his wife, his temper cools off. But Flanagan gets infatuated with Ariane.
They go out for dates in the afternoon and since Flanagan has a past with women Ariane concocts elaborate stories to keep up on equal footing with her new beau. She said she dated an Importer-Exporter of perfume and bananas, the Duke of Scotland, a bull fighter, and a Canadian hockey player. But at her young age the only male admirer she's ever had was her classmate Michel at the Music conservatory. Flanagan is jealous.
Good performance by Audrey Hepburn as the way she lies is so obvious and entertaining. While Love in the Afternoon is a fun movie, I would've liked it had Ariane gone with Michel (Van Doude). He's geeky, but it's clear he has a crush on her and the two would've been perfect together because they're the same age and have the same passion for music while Flanagan is too old and has gone through too many women to be suitable for the sweet Ariane.
Chavesse's young daughter Ariane (Audrey Hepburn) is spying on the whole incident in her room and hurries to the Hotel suite 14 at once to warn Flanagan and Josephine that Monsieur X knows of the love affair is coming to kill them both. She tells Josephine to get out and she will substitute herself for Josephine and pretend to be Flanagan's fling for the night. When Monsieur X shows up and finds out that isn't his wife, his temper cools off. But Flanagan gets infatuated with Ariane.
They go out for dates in the afternoon and since Flanagan has a past with women Ariane concocts elaborate stories to keep up on equal footing with her new beau. She said she dated an Importer-Exporter of perfume and bananas, the Duke of Scotland, a bull fighter, and a Canadian hockey player. But at her young age the only male admirer she's ever had was her classmate Michel at the Music conservatory. Flanagan is jealous.
Good performance by Audrey Hepburn as the way she lies is so obvious and entertaining. While Love in the Afternoon is a fun movie, I would've liked it had Ariane gone with Michel (Van Doude). He's geeky, but it's clear he has a crush on her and the two would've been perfect together because they're the same age and have the same passion for music while Flanagan is too old and has gone through too many women to be suitable for the sweet Ariane.
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