1957 · musical · romance · comedy
Funny Face
Directed by Stanley Donen1h 43m1957
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
Our read: Funny Face (1957) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded musical · romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle musical / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
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