- Release Date: 1957
- Runtime: 130 min
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Starring: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Van Doude ... see all
- Director: Billy Wilder
- Plot: Director Billy Wilder salutes his idol, Ernst Lubitsch, with this comedy about a middle-aged playboy fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him... Read more
User Reviews
audrey in her beast
Dec 22, 2008
wael - yahoo.com
Dec 22, 2008wael - yahoo.com
A lovely romance should everyone see. Both Cooper and Hepburn at thier best, they both give us much than anyone could expect, in the other hand we should thanks Billy Bider for his fascinating ideas like the gypsey band for example... Full review
audrey in her beast
Dec 22, 2008
mousecat53 - yahoo.com
Dec 22, 2008mousecat53 - yahoo.com
A lovely romance should everyone see. Both Cooper and Hepburn at thier best, they both give us much than anyone could expect, in the other hand we should thanks Billy Bider for his fascinating ideas like the gypsey band for example... Full review
It Was Fascination I Know
Oct 12, 2006
bkoganbing - imdb.com
Oct 12, 2006bkoganbing - imdb.com
Love in the Afternoon was conceived and brought to the screen by Billy Wilder as a homage to his friend and mentor in Hollywood, Ernest Lubitsch. This French novel Ariane had been filmed before in fact, by the Germans just... Full review
Sparkling if a Bit Overlong Boulevard Comedy Shows Wilder and Hepburn in Top Form
Aug 23, 2006
Ed Uyeshima - imdb.com
Aug 23, 2006Ed Uyeshima - imdb.com
There is likely no more romantic ending to a Hollywood movie than the one in this soufflé-light 1957 romantic comedy, where Audrey Hepburn tries to keep up with a departing train upon which Gary Cooper stands and listens intently to... Full review
A Movie that works with a miscast lead!
Nov 26, 2004
William Giesin - imdb.com
Nov 26, 2004William Giesin - imdb.com
This has always has been my all time favorite romantic comedy. Thanks to Billy Wilder's creative genius this film works despite Gary Cooper being miscast as the leading man. Regrettably, Gary Cooper was not only too old, but lacked the... Full review
An Unusual Combination Held Together By Hepburn & Wilder
Nov 01, 2004
Snow Leopard - imdb.com
Nov 01, 2004Snow Leopard - imdb.com
This odd combination of story, characters, and cast could easily have fallen apart irretrievably in the first few minutes. That it holds together is due primarily to Audrey Hepburn's unsurpassed charm and Billy Wilder's resourceful story-telling technique. It ends up... Full review
great film
Feb 25, 2004
kyle_furr - imdb.com
Feb 25, 2004kyle_furr - imdb.com
The first time and only time Billy Wilder and Gary Cooper worked together, and the second time Wilder worked with Audrey Hepburn after 1954's Sabrina. I liked this film much better than Sabrina, which i thought was sort of overrated... Full review
Defending Cooper
Dec 27, 2003
That Pete Kid - imdb.com
Dec 27, 2003That Pete Kid - imdb.com
Love in the Afternoon is a late 50s Wilder classic. At least semi-classic. The story is about a French girl who falls in love with a swinger from Paris. The girl is Audrey Hepburn and the man is Gary Cooper.... Full review
Great 'Coop'; Beguiling Hepburn
Feb 07, 2002
ronnie - imdb.com
Feb 07, 2002ronnie - imdb.com
The first thing I noticed about this lilting romance (on the widescreen DVD) was the beautiful, shimmering, black and white photography. Set in Paris, with some scenes filmed there, Director Billy Wilder weaves a captivating, simple tale of a 20ish... Full review
One romantic movie I love
Sep 28, 1999
gerry-russell-139 - imdb.com
Sep 28, 1999gerry-russell-139 - imdb.com
I am not a fan of romantic movies but there are a small handful that I love and by far the one I love most (of the less bigger scale types like "Gone With the Wind") is "Love in the... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Jan 08, 2002DVD Talk
Love in the Afternoon has not aged well at all in the forty years since its 1957 release, with the film as a whole suffering from a lack of context for its story.
The film depends too heavily on the viewer making the correct assumptions, so that when considered by itself as a story, Love in the Afternoon falls flat.
... Full Review
| Aug 12, 1957Entertainment Weekly
Coop, then 56, was playing the love interest of Audrey Hepburn, 28, in Billy Wilder's lightweight, lighthearted Love in the Afternoon. ... Full Review
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