Breakfast at Tiffany's

Everyone should see this gem! Audrey Hepburn has always struck me as a lady with everything that goes with it. She's the reason this film has no shortage of wit, originality, and romance. If there's one thing that's got pizzazz, it's this. The final scene in the rain, when Audrey is running and shouting "Cat, cat, caaaat..." is legendary. I love the music, the interiors, the elegant fashion, the haircuts, the gloves... I love Tiffany! And George Peppard is a real man. Breakfast at Tiffany's is one of my all-time favorites. (07/13/2011)

The great star of world cinema, Audrey Hepburn, was always greatly helped in her career by her fragile appearance, delicate face, and amazing eyes, which she skillfully used to hide the fact that she wasn't such a great actress. Besides the aforementioned advantages, her success also relied on the fact that she was able to choose roles wisely so as not to overexert herself. However, in her filmography, there are much more demanding films than Breakfast at Tiffany's, such as My Fair Lady, or films where she had to demonstrate much more acting talent, such as Wait Until Dark. In the case of her probably most famous film, Breakfast at Tiffany's, I always felt that the film served the viewer not so much with a story, but with Audrey and her charms. It's simply a one-girl show; otherwise, Breakfast at Tiffany's can be considered a mostly average romantic conversation film, which didn't make me laugh once and only slightly touched me in two or three places with its sentimentality. I wanted to give it three stars, but when I revisited the film for the third time, I fell asleep during it, and that shouldn't happen with a three-star film. Overall impression: 45%. (10/24/2010)

It’s really lucky that this movie was filmed back in 1961, therefore giving it the chance to become almost a cult Hollywood movie. In my opinion, it’s about nothing in particular and it’s interminably long. An hour would have been more than enough for the entire movie. In some places, Audrey Hepburn is so one-dimensional that she is thoroughly unconvincing. The movie plays at something it isn’t. It has just one bit of magic about it: the time and place it was filmed. (01/13/2021)

The film is held together by the awesome charisma of Audrey Hepburn, who once again delivers a divine performance, and excels in every emotional position the script demands. Overall, I don't think it’s memorable for its romantic plot or classical execution, but thanks to its pleasant humour, a number of endearing characters (the angry roommate clearly leads the way) and admirable human insight, it's still lovely to watch after all these years. Roman Holiday, however, remains unbeaten :-) 80% (07/22/2013)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s embodies Hollywood at its most classic and at its worst. On the one hand, we have here the magnificently stellar Audrey Hepburn, a narrative with bittersweet tones and precision craftsmanship. On the other hand, there is the absolutely horribly kitschy ending that utterly negates everything that has gone before. All of the potential depth and ambiguity of not only the central character, but also of the whole depiction of the emptiness and artificiality of the American Cinderella story is bluntly trampled underfoot. At its core, or rather in the book on which it’s based, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is actually a precursor to Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience, which the film version could also have been, up until that off-key climax. Only instead of the sense of detachment and cynicism of modern cinema, the bitterness and self-pity of consumer fairy tales shine through the cracks in the superficial carefreeness and the distracted life of the endless party. With a bit of tolerance and a great deal of sympathy, mainly for the iconic Audrey Hepburn, it’s possible to squint at the film and excuse its betrayal of the viewer in the same way that Mickey Rooney’s much-criticised part deservedly did, which unfortunately was the normal or rather dominant way of going about things at that time. Hollywood was overtly racist then, grinding down the edges of everything that stood out, returning distinctive and headstrong female characters, who were largely ground down themselves, into the arms of the masculine hero and delivering false illusions instead of inspiring catharsis. (06/05/2021)