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Paris when it sizzles, common sense media reviewers.

1960s romance has drinking, smoking, sexual references.

William Holden and Audrey Hepburn's heads and shoulders features beneath writing about their characters on the poster for Paris When it Sizzles.

A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

Big romantic gestures pay off. Criminals get their

Gabrielle is smart and eloquent, though easily pul

Characters are exclusively White. Beyond the two c

Guns are fired, people shot dead (with blood from

Characters flirt and kiss on the lips and neck. Ch

Occasional language includes "hell" and "damn."

References to Paramount Pictures and movies includ

Characters drink alcohol -- including vodka, cockt

Positive Messages

Big romantic gestures pay off. Criminals get their comeuppance. Movie cliches can work in real life too. Communication and teamwork are important in solving problems.

Positive Role Models

Gabrielle is smart and eloquent, though easily pulled in by Richard's charm. She understands the movie industry and learns to use his filmic rules to influence his own behavior in real life. Richard is arrogant and drinks constantly, though possibly to cover up insecurities beneath. He shows care and kindness toward Gabrielle, almost in spite of himself. The pair show communication skills and teamwork to get the script finished.

Diverse Representations

Characters are exclusively White. Beyond the two central roles, men within the industry drink and gamble, while the women take notes in bikinis. At one point, men keep score of a card game by writing on a woman's bare back. However, the movie acknowledges and plays on some stereotypes, such as poking fun at the idea of a man punching a woman's suitor as a display of masculinity. Frequent comments about Audrey Hepburn's "big magical eyes" are played for laughs, acknowledging her doe-eyed image. Though her character is smart and confident, she is referred to as a "little fool" and an "unsophisticated chick" at times. At one point, the film leans into a Western style and a stereotypical representation of Native Americans in headdresses is briefly shown, albeit in the center of 1960s Paris.

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Violence & Scariness

Guns are fired, people shot dead (with blood from the mouth on one occasion), and a plane is shot down. Physical fighting includes punching, shoving, and hitting with objects, and a brawl breaks out in the street. A character is hit and falls down unconscious. Young children set off fire crackers. Mention of bull fights. Bats in a cave, a vampire, and a skeleton frighten a character.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

Characters flirt and kiss on the lips and neck. Character seen topless from behind, brushing their hair, and naked beneath bubbles in a bath. There is kissing on a bed, with characters lying on top of each other, clothed. Fade-out implies sex has taken place. Bikini-clad characters.

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References to Paramount Pictures and movies including La Dolce Vita and Breakfast at Tiffany's , as well as brands like Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Château Lafite Rothschild champagne, Martini, Le Figaro newspaper, Levi's, and Parcheesi game.

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Characters drink alcohol -- including vodka, cocktails, champagne, vermouth, brandy, and wine. One character drinks the majority of the time they're on-screen. Characters smoke cigarettes and a pipe is smoked in the background.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Paris When it Sizzles is a charming Hollywood romance from the 1960s starring William Holden and Audrey Hepburn who come together in order to complete a movie script. Violence is usually shown in the movie-within-a-movie, with people shot dead and physical fighting. Characters also kiss and there is the implication sex has taken place. Holden's character, Richard Benson, drinks alcohol most of the time he is on-screen -- though is never seen seriously intoxicated. Various brand names are mentioned, and there are references to other movies. While the romance is fairly predictable, characters show communication skills and teamwork, and the film has plenty of tongue-in-cheek humor and clever plot techniques that make it an enjoyable watch that will likely appeal to adults and teens who appreciate filmmaking from bygone eras. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the Story?

In PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES, Hollywood screenwriter Richard Benson ( William Holden ) is struggling to hit an important deadline just days away. He enlists the help of young assistant Gabrielle Simpson ( Audrey Hepburn ), and the two begin acting out possible scenarios for the plot, gradually falling for the old movie cliches themselves.

Is It Any Good?

While it's a typical boy-meets-girl romance, the two leads -- Benson and Hepburn -- are as delightful as ever in this elaborate movie-within-a-movie that has a few extra tricks up its sleeve. In Paris When it Sizzles , much of the fun can be found in the meta aspects on the film, which feel quite ahead of their time. As the pair talk about movie techniques and plot devices, so they happen on-screen. Hepburn, for example, says Sinatra would sing a line, and he does. Later she describes a character as handsome, "like Tony Curtis ," and guess who shows up? Add to that the colorful streets of Paris, full of life and playful energy, and this is a thoroughly enjoyable potential classic that has been somewhat underrated and ignored over the years.

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Families can talk about the film-within-a-film structure of Paris When it Sizzles . How did the movie portray which scenes are "real life" and which are within the movie being written? How did you feel about the characters talking about the filming techniques? Did you already know what they were? Did you learn anything new?

How were sex and relationships portrayed? Was it affectionate? Respectful? Parents, talk to your teens about your own values regarding sex and relationships.

The characters show communication skills and teamwork . Why are these important character strengths ? Can you think of times in your life when you've used these to solve a problem?

Talk about the violence in the film. Did the fact that most of it took place in the movie-within-a-movie lessen the impact? Why, or why not? Does exposure to violent media desensitize kids to violence?

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Movie Details

In theaters : April 8, 1964
On DVD or streaming : April 10, 2001
Cast : William Holden , Audrey Hepburn , Tony Curtis
Director : Richard Quine
Studio : Paramount Pictures
Genre : Romance
Character Strengths : Communication , Teamwork
Run time : 110 minutes
MPAA rating : NR
Last updated : December 19, 2023

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William Holden (Richard Benson) Audrey Hepburn (Gabrielle Simpson) Grégoire Aslan (Inspector Gilet) Raymond Bussières (François) Christian Duvaleix (Maitre d'Hotel) Michel Thomass (Second Gangster) Dominique Boschero (Girl at Pool #1) Evi Marandi (Girl at Pool #2) Noël Coward (Alexander Meyerheim) Tony Curtis (Imagined Actor Portraying Maurice or Philippe)

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Paris When It Sizzles

Paris When It Sizzles fizzles. The Richard Quine-George Axelrod production is a romantic comedy that, as Axelrod himself describes the story - within - a story that weaves through the film, is 'contrived, utterly preposterous and totally unmotivated'.

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Paris When It Sizzles fizzles. The Richard Quine-George Axelrod production is a romantic comedy that, as Axelrod himself describes the story – within – a story that weaves through the film, is ‘contrived, utterly preposterous and totally unmotivated’.

Axelrod’s 108-minutes of marsh mallow-weight hokum is concerned with the evolution of a romantic relationship between a somewhat broken down, middleaged screenwriter (William Holden) and his Tessie the Typist, an adorable Givenchy wenchy also known as Audrey Hepburn. Their affair is more or less paralleled in the creative ramblings of Holden’s mind as he dreams up an artificial cloak-and-dagger screenplay.

The basic error in this film seems to be the artificiality of the shell in which the takeoffs are encased.

Prettiest image by far is Hepburn, a refreshingly individual creature in an era of the exaggerated curve. Holden handles his assignment commendably. Both give a lot more than they have gotten. Chipping in extended, uncredited cameos are Tony Curtis and Noel Coward, with smaller bits in the same vein by Mel Ferrer and Marlene Dietrich. The singing voices of Fred Astaire and Frank Sinatra are heard, former in a chorus of ‘That Face’, latter singing one line of a tune in a parody of main titles that is one of the more amusing passages of the film.

Production: Paramount. Director Richard Quine; Producer Richard Quine, George Axelrod; Screenplay George Axelrod; Camera Charles Lang Jr; Editor Archie Marshek; Music Nelson Riddle; Art Director Jean D'Eaubonne
Crew: (Color) Available on VHS. Extract of a review from 1964. Running time: 108 MIN.
With: William Holden Audrey Hepburn Gregoire Aslan Raymond Bussieres Christian Duvaleix

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Cast & crew, richard quine, william holden, audrey hepburn, grégoire aslan, raymond bussières, christian duvalleix, photos & videos, technical specs.

Film producer Alexander Meyerheimer is in Cannes and upset because scriptwriter Richard Benson is late delivering the script for The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower , Meyerheimer's latest production. He wires Benson in Paris that he has only 2 days to complete the script; and Benson, who has written nothing, hires a secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to move in and assist him. As they grind out a script that combines all the elements of a spy thriller, a comedy, a love story, a western, a musical, and every other basic motion picture genre, Richard and Gabrielle project themselves into the story and actually become the hero, heroine, and villain of each scene they create. They return to reality only for story changes, champagne suppers, and romantic interludes. When the deadline is reached the script is still unfinished, but Richard and Gabrielle have fallen in love.

Noël Coward

Tony Curtis

Marlene Dietrich

Fred Astaire

Frank Sinatra

Thomas michel, dominique boschero, evi marandi, george axelrod, gabriel bechir, jo de bretagne, john coonan, carter dehaven jr., jean d' eaubonne, paul feyder, hubert de givenchy, charles grenzbach, charles lang jr., paul k. lerpae, archie marshek, frank mccoy, arthur morton, claude renoir, nelson riddle.

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George Axelrod, 1922-2003

The working title of this film is Together in Paris . Lang replaced Renoir during production.

Miscellaneous Notes

Released in United States 1963

A remake of "La fete a Henriette" (France/1952), directed by Julien Duvivier.

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Review by Craig Butler

Paris When It Sizzles is conspicuously lacking in sizzle, and that's probably its major problem. An incredibly light, titanically inconsequential romantic comedy such as this one rises or falls mostly on the chemistry between its leading players. Certainly the makers of Paris had every reason to expect that chemistry, as it had been apparent when William Holden and Audrey Hepburn made Sabrina a decade earlier. Unfortunately, lightning did not strike twice, perhaps because of rumored personal problems that Holden was experiencing at the time which may have caused him to "pull back" somewhat onscreen. The actor is not helped by the fact that Paris is something of a late-model screwball comedy, a genre that does not take best advantage of his considerable talents. Hepburn, by contrast, has no problem here, and indeed she's lovely throughout; if this is not one of her greatest performances, it's largely due to the fact that neither the screenplay nor the direction are top notch. The former is amusing but confused, aiming at too many targets without really hitting them and not providing enough payback on its interesting premise. The latter is simply pedestrian, causing a film that should sail by on the fleetest of feet to instead plod along with only the occasional skip or half-hearted leap. Paris When It Sizzles is watchable, but little else.

Paris When it Sizzles (1964) - Blu-ray Review

Classic Hollywood making fun of itself? Count me in! Paris When it Sizzles goes full ridiculous in this charming, downright delightful romantic comedy so silly that you cannot help but smile the whole way through.

Starring legends Audrey Hepburn and William Holden , the film centers on famed screenwriter, Richard Benson ( Holden ) who is down to his last weekend of allotted time to deliver a 138-page script to his producer Alexander Meyerheim ( Noël Coward ). Too busy indulging in his playboy, alcohol-induced lifestyle, Benson hires a temp secretary, Gabrielle Simpson ( Hepburn ) to help him type up his non-existent story. Upon arriving in his hotel room in Paris, Simpson learns that since not a single page as been written, she must also aid Benson in coming up with the story. And in doing so, the two, of course, start falling in love in the process.

While Holden and Hepburn are no doubt, effortlessly good in the main story of Paris When it Sizzles , the sequences in The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower show both stars, especially Hepburn, having so much fun embracing the heightened emotions of their alter egos. It is so nice to see a film from this era actively poking fun at Hollywood tropes to make something filled to the brim with absurd fun and is an all-around good time.

Considering the meta nature of the film, it is not super surprising that this film was not much of a success when it came out, nor has it really garnered much popularity over time. But I think that this film deserves much more attention than it has previously received. It is one of the rare times that Hollywood does its best to not take itself so seriously, and in doing so, there is an unpredictability to the picture that keeps it non-stop entertaining, engaging, and hilarious.

Directed by Richard Quine and written by George Axelrod and featuring cameos by Tony Curtis, Marlene Dietrich , and even the voice of the one and only Frank Sinatra, Paris When it Sizzles pulls out all the stops in this light-hearted, unique romantic comedy. If you’ve never seen it, now is the time to do yourself a favor and check it out. Courtesy of Paramount Pictures , you can now own this under-rated Hollywood gem on Blu-Ray with a new High-Definition transfer.

Home Video Distributor: Paramount Pictures Available on Blu-ray - May 3, 2022 Screen Formats: 1.85:1 Subtitles : English, English SDH, French, Spanish Audio: English: Dolby TrueHD Mono; French: Dolby Digital Mono Discs: Blu-ray Disc; single disc Region Encoding: Locked to Region A

William Holden and Audrey Hepburn reunited 10 years after SABRINA to star in this irresistible romantic comedy. Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter being pressured by a movie producer ( Noël Coward ) to finish his script. Richard hired a live-in secretary ( Hepburn ) to help him, and soon they’re falling in love. But while they’re having fun enacting scenes from an unwritten screenplay, the deadline to deliver the script is fast approaching.

With the new 1080p high definition, this restoration is fairly good. With no imperfections on the print to be found, the picture is very clean. The color balance offers a more muted-tone for most of the film, and the amount of film grain is decent but can be a bit distracting at times.

With a Mono Dolby TrueHD audio track, everything comes in crystal clear with Nelson Riddle’s grand and sweeping score wonderfully mixed in throughout, though overall the track is a bit quieter than you would expect.

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With nothing but a few trailers to show, the supplements included are virtually non-existent, and it leaves us wishing for much more!

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MPAA Rating: Unrated. Runtime: 110 mins Director : Richard Quine Writer: George Axelrod Cast: William Holden; Audrey Hepburn; Grégoire Aslan Genre : Comedy | Romance Tagline: RELAX...IT'S ALL RIGHT TO LAUGH AT THIS TENDER LOVE STORY! Memorable Movie Quote: "Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink." Theatrical Distributor: Paramount Pictures Official Site: Release Date: May 3, 2022 DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: May 3, 2022. Synopsis : Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter pressured by a movie producer (Noël Coward) to finish his script. Richard hires a live-in secretary, Gabrielle Simpson (Audrey Hepburn) to help him, and soon they're falling in love, enacting scenes from an unwritten screenplay. Unfortunately, the deadline to deliver a script is fast approaching.

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Paris when it sizzles.

1964 Directed by Richard Quine

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Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.

William Holden Audrey Hepburn Grégoire Aslan Raymond Bussières Christian Duvaleix Michel Thomass Dominique Boschero Evi Marandi Noël Coward Tony Curtis Marlene Dietrich Mel Ferrer Henri Garcin Dominique Zardi

Director Director

Richard Quine

Producers Producers

George Axelrod Carter DeHaven Jr. Richard Quine John R. Coonan

Writers Writers

George Axelrod Julien Duvivier Henri Jeanson

Editor Editor

Archie Marshek

Cinematography Cinematography

Charles Lang

Assistant Director Asst. Director

Paul Feyder

Camera Operator Camera Operator

Henri Tiquet

Art Direction Art Direction

Jean-André d'Eaubonne

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Gabriel Béchir

Special Effects Special Effects

Paul K. Lerpae

Composer Composer

Nelson Riddle

Songs Songs

Frank Sinatra Fred Astaire Alan Bergman Lew Spence

Sound Sound

Charles Grenzbach Joseph de Bretagne

Costume Design Costume Design

Hubert de Givenchy

Makeup Makeup

Frank McCoy

Hairstyling Hairstyling

Paramount Richard Quine Productions George Axelrod Productions

Releases by Date

16 mar 1964, 28 mar 1964, 08 apr 1964, 30 may 1964, 05 jun 1965, 01 sep 2001, releases by country.

Theatrical 10
Physical DVD
Theatrical 12
Theatrical M/12
Theatrical NR Certificate #20382

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Review by ele 🪷 ★★★½

you can tell audrey loved getting to be absolutely ridiculous in this movie and i loved it too!!!

Review by Pippin ★★★★ 6

The letterboxd rating for Paris When It Sizzles is criminally low. This is such a silly movie mocking other movies and I love it so much.

William Holden and Audrey Hepburn are absolutely amazing together in this and carry the film very well. Holden plays screenwriter Richard Benson who procrastinated writing his screenplay for weeks so he hires secretary Gabrielle Simpson, played by Hepburn, to help.

Every time Richard described a character that looked just like a certain celebrity I couldn't help but laugh because I do the same thing when I write.

Out of all the cameos in the movie, Tony Curtis playing Maurice/Philippe is definitely the best, and he adds quite a lot of comedy to the film,…

Review by Seemoya 🦕🌷 ★★★★½

love how good this movie is and love not caring what anyone else thinks

Review by hitch™ ★★★½

“ It stars Audrey Hepburn and takes place in Paris...” Every studio in the 60s: “Shut up and take my money”

Review by theironcupcake ★★★★½ 12

"You really like it, don't you?" "What?" "Life." "Ah! Every morning when I wake up and I see there's a whole new other day, I just go absolutely ape!"

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Review by Erik [Auk] ★★★½

Next time I watch a classic Hollywood movie where they fade out before sex I'm going to imagine they're actually playing parcheesi like William Holden said.

Review by Vivian ★★★★

all men who write think they’re this guy

Review by Samantha ★★

Audrey Hepburn: *in a movie she’s starring in, makes references to many of the other movies she’s starred in*

Review by kmarus ★★★★

Like watching Audrey Hepburn play with an Audrey Hepburn doll for two hours, I loved it.

Review by KYK ★★★★

i love when beautiful people have fun

Review by ana 🩸 ★★★½

william holden's chest hair, audrey hepburn letting her long hair down....i mean i'm not a slut but who knows!

Review by trolleyfreak ★★★½ 5

'I remember the day I arrived at Orly Airport for Paris When It Sizzles. I could hear my footsteps echoing against the walls of the transit corridor, just like a condemned man walking the last mile. I realized that I had to face Audrey [Hepburn] and I had to deal with my drinking. And I didn’t think I could handle either situation..' (William Holden explaining his feelings before shooting Paris When It Sizzles)

Cinematically speaking, Hepburn spent a lot of time in Paris and she was back in the French capital for a good part of the year 1962 when she made this George Axelrod-scripted romantic comedy - a remake of Julien Duvivier's 1952 French film Holiday For Henrietta -…

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Paris When It Sizzles

The sprightly young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter helps him over his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots.
Basing himself in Paris for the purpose, American hack writer Richard Benson, with advance in hand, has been hired by movie producer Alexander Meyerheim to write the screenplay for his latest movie, Benson selling him only on the title, The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower. Meyerheim, who knows about his drinking problem, has been assured by Benson that he is on the wagon. Benson hires Gabrielle Simpson through a secretarial service to be his typist. At the time she arrives for the job, Gabrielle learns that Benson has squandered away almost twenty weeks, with several drinks passing his lips over the course, without having written a word. With nary a story idea, Benson has only two days, on Bastille Day, until Meyerheim will be arriving from Cannes expecting a final product in Benson having continually implied he is near completion. Upon learning that Gabrielle originally came to Paris to experience life, Benson comes up with a brainchild to imagine the movie being a day, Bastille Day, in the life of someone like Gabrielle. As Benson and Gabrielle work through the screenplay, an espionage caper, they imagine themselves in the lead roles of "Rick" and "Gaby", they subconsciously and sometimes consciously steering the story in the direction of what they hope will happen between "Richard Benson" and "Gabrielle Simpson", both to the screenplay's benefit and detriment. — Huggo
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time. — Col Needham <[email protected]>
In Paris, the successful alcoholic forty-two years old screenplay writer Richard Benson has three days to write a script to his producer that has paid in advance. The typist Gabrielle Simpson arrives to his hotel to type the screenplay. Along the three days, she helps him to develop the story and they fall in love for each other. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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A screenwriter spends his time enjoying Paris instead of working on the script he was hired to complete. Now just a few days before his deadline, he hires a secretary who helps him act out all the script's eccentric possible scenarios. Remake of the 1952 French comedy film "Holiday for Henrietta."

Paris when it fizzles. A remake of the 1953 French picture HENRIETTE'S HOLIDAY (directed by Julien Duvivier), this movie pairs Holden and Hepburn for the first time since SABRINA, in 1954. Holden is a screenwriter under pressure from movie producer Coward to finish his latest script, "The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower." Coward gives him 48 hours to finish, unaware that the writer has yet to begin. Hoping to hurry the process along, Holden hires a secretary, Hepburn. She moves in with him, and during her short stay they fall madly in love, while confusing their own lives with those of the script's characters. They imagine themselves in various scenes from the film--a western, a musical, a spy drama, a romance, a comedy--with their fantasies taking precedence over their work. When the 48-hour time limit has expired, they still have no script. Distraught, Holden tells Hepburn that he is not good enough for her, and she leaves. But an unhappy ending is not in the cards. The couple's relationship takes off with the promise of a Hollywood-style romance. Unfortunately, PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES falls as flat as "The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower." Although the locations and Hepburn both photograph brilliantly, the relationship between Hepburn and Holden never comes to life. This is not surprising, since Holden and Hepburn were on rather shaky ground in real life. During the filming of SABRINA Holden had found himself falling uncontrollably in love with Hepburn. Ten years after her refusal to marry him, the two paired in PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES. Holden's biography reports that Holden once told Ryan O'Neal, "I remember the day I arrived at Orly Airport for PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES. I could hear my footsteps echoing against the walls of the transit corridor, just like a condemned man walking the last mile. I realized that I had to face Audrey and I had to deal with my drinking. And I didn't think I could handle either situation." Hepburn tried her best to make Holden comfortable (which only made Holden want her more) and to ease tensions on the set. After the first day's "rushes," however, Hepburn was extremely dissatisfied with how she had been photographed. She demanded that Renoir be fired (a gross insult to the highly respected family name in Paris). Franz Planer was the first-choice replacement; but when his schedule was found to be too busy, Lang was picked. After that delay another, more-major setback followed. Holden's drinking binges alternated with a clinic dryout and then a bout with minor injuries sustained in a car accident. (With only one more scene to complete, he had bought a Ferrari, driven to Switzerland for Bastille Day--ignoring the pleas of Quine and Axelrod--and crashed into a brick wall.) In what seemed like a desperate attempt to add some stronger box office potential to the film, Quine enlisted a number of big names to appear in a party scene, among them Dietrich (who reportedly got to keep the limousine and the fur coat in which she arrives in the film), Ferrer (Hepburn's husband at that time), Curtis, and the singing voices of Sinatra and Astaire. All of this box office artillery, however, couldn't raise PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES to anything more than an average piece of entertainment.

Paris When It Sizzles Blu-ray Review

December 30, 2021

Audrey Hepburn’s Most Underrated Film

Sabrina co-stars Audrey Hepburn and William Holden reunite a decade later for the delirious romantic comedy Paris When It Sizzles . The Hollywood stars have a ball in Hepburn’s most clever and underrated film, poking fun at themselves and their images. A playful, fun screenplay by George Axelrod mocks the filmmaking process with a dazzling array of Hollywood in-jokes and intelligent gags.

The light comedy is a sly send-up of Audrey Hepburn’s earlier films and the movie business itself. Met with mixed reaction upon release, both critically and commercially, Paris When It Sizzles was ahead of its time as a satire working on multiple levels. That didn’t sit well with audiences of the 1960s, expecting a straight romantic opus starring the popular Audrey Hepburn. Nominally a romantic comedy, the film’s complex, whimsical meta structure took many of her fans by surprise. The romance is sweet but feels like an afterthought if you don’t buy the banter between its two stars.

Paris When It Sizzles was ahead of its time as a satire working on multiple levels

A decadent Hollywood film producer (Noel Coward) demands a film script from Richard Benson (William Holden) within three days. The overpaid, alcoholic screenwriter has a title, “The Girl Who Stole The Eiffel Tower” and little else written down. The studio sends him the sweet ingenue Gabrielle (Audrey Hepburn), a typist who takes down his fevered script ideas.

Locked together in Benson’s apartment for three days, he bounces preposterous plots off of Gabrielle as they start working closely together. He’s under creative stress and she’s exasperated by his outlandish behavior. Gabrielle is often placed in the center of his wild ideas, imagined on the screen in elaborate set pieces. They start matching wits as the two grow ever closer and closer, concocting insane film plots.

Hepburn and Holden have immense fun in the roles. Holden even shows up at one point playing a b-movie vampire. It’s clear as day their characters are growing in love, playing out an amazing variety of characters as Benson’s movie-within-a-movie keeps mutating from musical to comedy to thriller to even monster flick. Based on an earlier French film, Paris When It Sizzles is an unqualified gem.

Shot on location in Paris, the movie is a gloriously decadent Hollywood production with cameos galore. Tony Curtis plays himself, Marlene Dietrich shows up for a split second, they even get Frank Sinatra singing a few unaccredited bars. It’s a testament to Hollywood’s studio system, though the film’s box office failure helped erode the system’s credibility and paved the way for more maverick filmmaking as Paramount started losing money.

The 1964 romantic comedy is presented in reasonable HD condition, definitely better than the middling DVD, but not on par with Paramount’s most recent efforts. The Blu-ray is a more-than-serviceable job which could improved.

This BD doesn’t resemble a new, tack-sharp 4K scan with gorgeous palette retention and incredible definition. Detail fares better in Benson’s swanky apartment. Exteriors favor a bolder palette and more saturated primaries.

The 1.78:1 video is a tad soft in select scenes from what is likely an older film transfer. Paris When It Sizzles could look somewhat better with a legitimate 4K scan like My Fair Lady . That is probably not in the cards considering most view the light comedy as one of Hepburn’s lesser films.

Almost certainly struck from the original camera negative, the Technicolor elements are in fine shape with a solid contrast and even black levels. Flesh-tones maintain a healthy appearance. Color fidelity is unremarkable but largely well preserved. Only hints of debris and optical detritus mar the appreciably clean elements.

The best news here is that Paramount has employed a transfer devoid of filtering and ringing, rare for their earlier HD efforts. This may well be the same transfer struck when they released Paris When It Sizzles on DVD, almost a decade ago. The 1080p video consistently honors the original celluloid with excellent grain reproduction.

The main feature runs 110 minutes on a BD-50. The high-bitrate AVC encode smoothly captures the thicker grain structure and evident detail. It’s a technically astute mastering of the film elements by Paramount.

The original monaural theatrical soundtrack comes off fairly well in pleasant 2.0 Dolby TrueHD. It’s a dialogue-driven film with a wonderful score by master composer and arranger Nelson Riddle.

An uncredited Frank Sinatra sings a few lines as one of many gags. It’s not an overly dynamic recording but dialogue is sharply delivered without problems. The music has limited extension though the mono soundstage is fairly punchy.

Optional English, English SDH, German, Japanese, French and Spanish subtitles play in a white font. French and German mono dubs play in 2.0 Dolby Digital.

Paris When It Sizzles is released exclusively on Blu-ray as part of Paramount’s Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection . The eight-disc collection includes War and Peace , Sabrina , Roman Holiday , My Fair Lady , Funny Face , and Breakfast At Tiffany’s . Nothing but the theatrical trailer is included as a bonus feature for the movie, ported over from the original DVD.

Paramount provides a separate digital copy for every movie in the 7-Movie Collection. Each digital copy redeems in HDX quality on either VUDU or iTunes. It should be noted that Paramount isn’t part of Movies Anywhere, so the digital copy doesn’t port to other providers.

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Get ready to indulge in the glamour and charm of the classic film “Paris When It Sizzles.” This iconic movie, released in 1964, combines romance, comedy, and a touch of mystery, taking viewers on a delightful journey through the enchanting city of Paris. With its star-studded cast, including Audrey Hepburn and William Holden, “Paris When It Sizzles” has become a beloved cinema gem that continues to captivate audiences even after all these years. In this article, we will delve into 36 fascinating facts about the making of this film, giving you an inside look into the behind-the-scenes secrets, trivia, and memorable moments that have contributed to its enduring popularity. So grab your popcorn and get ready to dive into the world of “Paris When It Sizzles” like never before!

Key Takeaways:

Paris When It Sizzles is a captivating movie set in Paris, blending romance, comedy, and mystery. It showcases the power of imagination and the magic of falling in love in the City of Lights.
The film’s star-studded cast, stylish fashion, and unique storytelling make it a must-watch for anyone who loves movies. It’s a timeless classic that continues to enchant audiences.

The Inspiration Behind the Title

Paris When It Sizzles got its unique title from the famous quote by American writer, Ernest Hemingway. The movie captures the vibrant and lively atmosphere of Paris, making it a perfect fit for the film.

A Star-Studded Cast

The movie boasts an impressive cast consisting of two Hollywood legends – Audrey Hepburn and William Holden. Their on-screen chemistry and remarkable acting skills are a major highlight of the film.

A Romantic Comedy with a Twist

Paris When It Sizzles is not your typical romantic comedy. It cleverly combines elements of mystery and suspense to keep the audience guessing until the very end.

A Unique Filming Technique

The movie features a unique filming technique where flashbacks, present-day scenes, and imaginative sequences seamlessly merge together. This adds an extra layer of complexity to the storyline.

The Parisian Backdrop

The enchanting city of Paris serves as the backdrop for the movie. It beautifully showcases the iconic landmarks, picturesque streets, and the enchanting atmosphere that make Paris a beloved destination.

A Tribute to Classic Hollywood

Paris When It Sizzles pays homage to the golden era of Hollywood with its witty dialogue, glamorous costumes, and extravagant sets. It captures the essence of classic Hollywood filmmaking.

A Battle of Creativity

The movie centers around a struggling screenwriter and his secretary, who find themselves caught up in a battle of creativity as they try to write a screenplay together. Their differing views and personalities create hilarious conflicts.

Behind-the-Scenes Chaos

Despite its polished on-screen appearance, Paris When It Sizzles faced numerous production challenges. The movie went through several script rewrites and director changes, resulting in a chaotic behind-the-scenes atmosphere.

Audrey Hepburn’s Fashion

Audrey Hepburn’s character in the film, Gabrielle Simpson, showcases an array of stunning and stylish outfits that have become iconic fashion moments.

The Transformation of William Holden’s Character

William Holden’s character, Richard Benson, starts off as a disheveled and uninspired writer but undergoes a transformation throughout the movie, making him a more confident and successful individual.

A Look into the Movie-Making Process

Paris When It Sizzles offers a unique insight into the movie-making process. It delves into the brainstorming, writing, and editing stages that go into creating a screenplay, giving viewers a behind-the-scenes experience.

A Blend of Genres

The movie seamlessly blends elements of comedy, romance, mystery, and adventure, making it a versatile and entertaining viewing experience.

The Role of Imagination

Imagination plays a central role in the film as the characters bring their creative ideas to life through their screenplay. It highlights the power of imagination in storytelling.

A Caper within a Caper

Paris When It Sizzles features a captivating storyline with multiple layers. As the characters work on their screenplay, they also find themselves caught up in a real-life caper, blending fiction and reality.

Iconic Film References

The movie is filled with references to iconic films and famous movie stars. It’s a treat for cinephiles who can spot the clever nods to classic Hollywood.

A Quirky Sense of Humor

Paris When It Sizzles has a quirky and sophisticated sense of humor. The witty banter between the characters and the comedic situations they find themselves in will keep you entertained throughout.

Memorable Quotes

The movie is filled with memorable quotes that have become part of film history. From clever one-liners to profound insights, the dialogue in Paris When It Sizzles leaves a lasting impression.

The Music of Paris When It Sizzles

The film’s soundtrack captures the essence of Paris, blending romantic melodies with energetic tunes. The music adds depth and enhances the overall cinematic experience.

Critical Reception

Upon its release, Paris When It Sizzles received mixed reviews from critics. While some praised its unique concept and creative execution, others felt that the movie was too convoluted and disjointed.

A Cult Classic

Over the years, Paris When It Sizzles has gained a cult following, with fans appreciating its offbeat humor, stylish visuals, and the chemistry between Audrey Hepburn and William Holden.

Box Office Success

Despite the initial mixed reviews, Paris When It Sizzles performed well at the box office, indicating its appeal to a wide audience.

An Evergreen Story

The themes explored in Paris When It Sizzles – creativity, collaboration, and the power of imagination – are timeless and resonate with audiences even decades after its release.

Iconic Film Locations

The movie showcases various iconic locations in Paris, including the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, and the Seine River , giving viewers a virtual tour of the city.

Nominated for an Academy Award

Paris When It Sizzles received an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration. The film’s visual design and lavish sets earned it recognition in the industry.

The Chemistry Between Hepburn and Holden

Audrey Hepburn and William Holden’s on-screen chemistry is undeniable. Their dynamic and playful performances create an engaging and captivating viewing experience.

An Ode to Romanticism

Paris When It Sizzles celebrates the romanticism associated with Paris. It captures the allure and magic of the city while exploring themes of love, adventure, and creativity.

A Story Within a Story

The film skillfully weaves a story within a story as the characters’ real-life experiences intersect with their screenplay, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.

The Importance of Collaboration

Paris When It Sizzles highlights the importance of collaboration in the creative process. The characters learn to work together, combining their unique skills and perspectives to create a compelling screenplay.

A Stylish Fashion Showcase

The movie features a stunning array of costumes designed by renowned fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy . Audrey Hepburn’s wardrobe showcases timeless elegance and Parisian chic.

A Whirlwind Narrative

The movie takes the audience on a whirlwind ride through different genres and storytelling techniques. It keeps viewers engaged and entertained with its unpredictable twists and turns.

The Transformation of Paris

As the characters’ screenplay unfolds, Paris undergoes a transformation, becoming a character itself. The city serves as a visual metaphor for the characters’ changing emotions and experiences.

The Creative Process on Display

Paris When It Sizzles provides a fascinating glimpse into the creative process of writing a screenplay. It explores the challenges, frustrations, and moments of inspiration that come with being a writer.

A Timeless Love Story

At its core, Paris When It Sizzles tells a timeless love story. It explores the complexities of relationships, the power of attraction, and the magic of falling in love in the City of Lights.

Paris When It Sizzles Inspires Travel

The movie’s depiction of Paris, with its romantic ambiance and stunning visuals, has inspired countless viewers to visit the city and experience its charm firsthand.

The Legacy of Paris When It Sizzles

Despite its initial mixed reception, Paris When It Sizzles has left a lasting legacy. It continues to be celebrated for its unique concept, stylish visuals, and memorable performances.

A Must-Watch for Film Enthusiasts

With its unique blend of genres, stellar performances, and unforgettable moments, Paris When It Sizzles is a must-watch for film enthusiasts and anyone seeking a captivating cinematic experience.

Paris When It Sizzles is a truly unique and captivating film that captures the imagination of its audience. Combining elements of romance, comedy, and mystery, it takes viewers on a thrilling journey through the creative process of writing a screenplay in the enchanting city of Paris. With its star-studded cast, stylish fashion, and unforgettable moments, the movie has garnered a dedicated following over the years.

The film revolves around a struggling screenwriter, Richard Benson, played by the talented William Holden , and his secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, portrayed by the iconic Audrey Hepburn. As they collaborate on writing a screenplay, the movie seamlessly intertwines their real-life experiences with the fictional story they are creating. This creates a delightful blend of fiction and reality, keeping the audience engaged and entertained throughout.

One of the standout features of Paris When It Sizzles is its unique and imaginative filming technique. Flashbacks, present-day scenes, and imaginative sequences are seamlessly combined, creating a visually stunning and narratively complex storyline. This allows the movie to explore multiple genres within a single narrative, making it a truly unique viewing experience.

The movie also celebrates the charm and magic of Paris. The iconic landmarks and scenic views of the city are prominently featured, adding an extra layer of beauty and allure to the film. Paris serves as more than just a backdrop; it becomes a character itself, mirroring the emotions and experiences of the main characters.

Audrey Hepburn shines in her role as Gabrielle Simpson, bringing her signature elegance and charisma to the screen. Her impeccable fashion sense, designed by the legendary Hubert de Givenchy, adds an extra touch of glamour to the film. William Holden delivers a compelling performance as Richard Benson, capturing the journey of a struggling writer finding his voice.

Paris When It Sizzles is a film that celebrates the power of imagination, creativity, and collaboration. It explores the ups and downs of the creative process, from writer’s block to moments of inspiration. The movie delves into the complexities of relationships and the magic of falling in love, all set against the backdrop of the enchanting city of Paris.

In conclusion, Paris When It Sizzles is a hidden gem in the world of cinema. With its stellar cast, engaging storyline, and visually stunning cinematography, it is a must-watch for film enthusiasts. The movie’s unique blend of genres, stylish fashion, and memorable moments make it a timeless classic that continues to captivate audiences to this day.

Paris When It Sizzles is a classic movie that dazzles audiences with its romantic storyline and captivating performances. From the chemistry between Audrey Hepburn and William Holden to the beautiful backdrop of Paris, this film is a must-watch for any movie enthusiast. Whether you’re a fan of romantic comedies or just looking for a delightful escape, Paris When It Sizzles is sure to entertain you with its wit, charm, and 36 interesting facts. So grab some popcorn, settle in, and let this movie transport you to a world of love, laughter, and Parisian glamour.

1. Who are the main actors in Paris When It Sizzles?

Audrey Hepburn and William Holden are the main actors in the movie. They bring their incredible talent and on-screen chemistry to portray the lead characters.

2. What is the plot of Paris When It Sizzles?

The movie follows the story of a screenwriter and his secretary who come together to write a script in a Parisian apartment. As they work on the story, their own relationship starts to mirror the plot they are creating.

3. When was Paris When It Sizzles released?

The film was released in 1964 and quickly became a favorite among audiences for its lighthearted comedy and glamorous setting.

4. Is Paris When It Sizzles a romantic comedy?

Yes, Paris When It Sizzles is a romantic comedy that blends humor, romance, and a touch of drama to create an enjoyable cinematic experience.

5. Where was Paris When It Sizzles filmed?

The majority of the movie was filmed on location in Paris, France, capturing the essence and beauty of the city.

6. Who directed Paris When It Sizzles?

The film was directed by Richard Quine, known for his expertise in directing comedies.

7. Are there any memorable quotes from Paris When It Sizzles?

Absolutely! Some memorable quotes include: “I invented the word gadget,” “Love is like that. It can steal up on you,” and “Paris is for lovers. Maybe that’s why I stayed… to be near you.”

8. Did Paris When It Sizzles receive any awards or nominations?

While the film didn’t receive any major awards, it has gained a cult following over the years and remains a beloved classic in the romantic comedy genre.

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<p>A hallmark of any '90s kid is a crush on either one of these actors. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy play two characters who walk around Paris all night. They talk, flirt, and love, but only until sunrise.</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/channel/vid-7xx8mnucu55yw63we9va2gwr7uihbxwc68fxqp25x6tg4ftibpra?cvid=94631541bc0f4f89bfd59158d696ad7e">Follow us and access great exclusive content every day</a></p>

'Before Sunrise' (1995)

A hallmark of any '90s kid is a crush on either one of these actors. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy play two characters who walk around Paris all night. They talk, flirt, and love, but only until sunrise.

<p>This adorable film is shot all over Paris. It's about a girl, Amélie (Audrey Tautou), who tries to help with other people's misfortunes. In doing so, she falls in love.</p><p>You may also like:<a href="https://www.starsinsider.com/n/331444?utm_source=msn.com&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=referral_description&utm_content=458166v3en-us"> Celebrities who've been caught cheating</a></p>

'Amélie' (2001)

This adorable film is shot all over Paris. It's about a girl, Amélie (Audrey Tautou), who tries to help with other people's misfortunes. In doing so, she falls in love.

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The tragic love story of a courtesan and a poet is beautifully acted by Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. The film is based on a famous cabaret club in Paris. With crazy costumes and wonderful songs, you have to watch this film.<p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/channel/vid-7xx8mnucu55yw63we9va2gwr7uihbxwc68fxqp25x6tg4ftibpra?cvid=94631541bc0f4f89bfd59158d696ad7e">Follow us and access great exclusive content every day</a></p>

'Moulin Rouge!' (2001)

<p>The tale of 'Anastasia' focuses on a surviving princess of the Russian royal family. Anastasia escapes from Russia to Paris with the help of some con men. Meanwhile, the evil Rasputin tries to catch her. The film was inspired by a true story, but with a lot of liberties taken.</p><p>You may also like:<a href="https://www.starsinsider.com/n/410793?utm_source=msn.com&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=referral_description&utm_content=458166v3en-us"> Hollywood's most legendary lips</a></p>

'Anastasia' (1997)

The tale of 'Anastasia' focuses on a surviving princess of the Russian royal family. Anastasia escapes from Russia to Paris with the help of some con men. Meanwhile, the evil Rasputin tries to catch her. The film was inspired by a true story, but with a lot of liberties taken.

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<p>Steve Martin rocks the remake of 'The Pink Panther.' He plays Inspector Clouseau, who tumbles into an important investigation, bringing chaos and disorder. It is a must-see comedy set in Paris.</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/channel/vid-7xx8mnucu55yw63we9va2gwr7uihbxwc68fxqp25x6tg4ftibpra?cvid=94631541bc0f4f89bfd59158d696ad7e">Follow us and access great exclusive content every day</a></p>

'The Pink Panther' (2006)

Steve Martin rocks the remake of 'The Pink Panther.' He plays Inspector Clouseau, who tumbles into an important investigation, bringing chaos and disorder. It is a must-see comedy set in Paris.

<p>Winner of an astonishing nine Oscars, this film is set in Parisian society during the Belle Époque (1880-1914). The plot centers around a playboy and a trainee courtesan as their friendship unfolds.</p><p>You may also like:<a href="https://www.starsinsider.com/n/423595?utm_source=msn.com&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=referral_description&utm_content=458166v3en-us"> 60 unique ways to use salt</a></p>

'Gigi' (1958)

Winner of an astonishing nine Oscars, this film is set in Parisian society during the Belle Époque (1880-1914). The plot centers around a playboy and a trainee courtesan as their friendship unfolds.

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<p>No list of French films would be complete without this modern classic. 'Ratatouille' is a lovely story of a rat who becomes a chef in a top restaurant with the help of a human friend. It's fun for the whole family.</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/channel/vid-7xx8mnucu55yw63we9va2gwr7uihbxwc68fxqp25x6tg4ftibpra?cvid=94631541bc0f4f89bfd59158d696ad7e">Follow us and access great exclusive content every day</a></p>

'Ratatouille' (2007)

No list of French films would be complete without this modern classic. 'Ratatouille' is a lovely story of a rat who becomes a chef in a top restaurant with the help of a human friend. It's fun for the whole family.

<p>The twinkle toes of Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron really shine in this film. Three friends go to Paris looking for work, but encounter major difficulties when two of them fall in love with the same girl. This movie will uplift you with its musical charm.</p><p>You may also like:<a href="https://www.starsinsider.com/n/454714?utm_source=msn.com&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=referral_description&utm_content=458166v3en-us"> Rich list celebrities who had ordinary jobs</a></p>

'An American in Paris' (1951)

The twinkle toes of Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron really shine in this film. Three friends go to Paris looking for work, but encounter major difficulties when two of them fall in love with the same girl. This movie will uplift you with its musical charm.

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<p>Rowan Atkinson continues the Bean franchise with a smashing comedy about a trip to France. Mr. Bean's signature facial expressions and silly gags will make you teary-eyed.</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/channel/vid-7xx8mnucu55yw63we9va2gwr7uihbxwc68fxqp25x6tg4ftibpra?cvid=94631541bc0f4f89bfd59158d696ad7e">Follow us and access great exclusive content every day</a></p>

'Mr. Bean's Holiday' (2007)

Rowan Atkinson continues the Bean franchise with a smashing comedy about a trip to France. Mr. Bean's signature facial expressions and silly gags will make you teary-eyed.

<p>Oh, Audrey Hepburn! She is the queen of Paris in the '60s. This is one of her many romantic comedies set in the City of Love. Hepburn plays Gaby, the typist of a Hollywood screenwriter. Together they explore all the different turns a story can take in Paris.</p><p>You may also like:<a href="https://www.starsinsider.com/n/457783?utm_source=msn.com&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=referral_description&utm_content=458166v3en-us"> All you need to know about breast reduction surgery </a></p>

'Paris When It Sizzles' (1964)

Oh, Audrey Hepburn! She is the queen of Paris in the '60s. This is one of her many romantic comedies set in the City of Love. Hepburn plays Gaby, the typist of a Hollywood screenwriter. Together they explore all the different turns a story can take in Paris.

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<p>'An Education' is <a href="https://www.starsinsider.com/celebrity/226062/looking-back-at-carey-mulligans-impressive-career" rel="noopener">Carey Mulligan</a>'s breakthrough film. A young girl is charmed by a man twice her age, promptly falling in love with his worldly ways. He takes her to Paris on a romantic trip, further from the reality of their relationship.</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/channel/vid-7xx8mnucu55yw63we9va2gwr7uihbxwc68fxqp25x6tg4ftibpra?cvid=94631541bc0f4f89bfd59158d696ad7e">Follow us and access great exclusive content every day</a></p>

'An Education' (2009)

'An Education' is Carey Mulligan 's breakthrough film. A young girl is charmed by a man twice her age, promptly falling in love with his worldly ways. He takes her to Paris on a romantic trip, further from the reality of their relationship.

<p>Revolutionary at the time, <span>Jean-Luc Godard </span>pioneered breaking the cinematic fourth wall, where the actor talks directly to the camera. The handsome Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) falls for American journalist Patricia (Jean Seberg).</p><p>You may also like:<a href="https://www.starsinsider.com/n/458733?utm_source=msn.com&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=referral_description&utm_content=458166v3en-us"> The terror that was the Russian Gulag</a></p>

'Breathless' (1960)

Revolutionary at the time, Jean-Luc Godard pioneered breaking the cinematic fourth wall, where the actor talks directly to the camera. The handsome Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) falls for American journalist Patricia (Jean Seberg).

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<p>This kid-friendly film is about a young boy, Hugo, who lives in the walls of a Parisian train station. He follows the clues with his friend (Chloë Moretz) and a robot to find out more about his father's death.</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/channel/vid-7xx8mnucu55yw63we9va2gwr7uihbxwc68fxqp25x6tg4ftibpra?cvid=94631541bc0f4f89bfd59158d696ad7e">Follow us and access great exclusive content every day</a></p>

'Hugo' (2011)

This kid-friendly film is about a young boy, Hugo, who lives in the walls of a Parisian train station. He follows the clues with his friend (Chloë Moretz) and a robot to find out more about his father's death.

<p>Paul (Marlon Brando) and Jeanne (Marie Schneider) meet in Paris, but it is not your average relationship. He is much older than her and wants their relationship to be strictly sexual. But does it turn out that way?</p><p>You may also like:<a href="https://www.starsinsider.com/n/466133?utm_source=msn.com&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=referral_description&utm_content=458166v3en-us"> Golf's great celebratory moments</a></p>

'Last Tango in Paris' (1972)

Paul (Marlon Brando) and Jeanne (Marie Schneider) meet in Paris, but it is not your average relationship. He is much older than her and wants their relationship to be strictly sexual. But does it turn out that way?

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<p>Patrick Suskind wrote the original novel in 1985. The film follows the same story about a man who has a superhuman sense of smell. He tracks down and murders beautiful women to create the ultimate scent. Dark and brilliant, it'll take you to the gutters of Paris.</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/channel/vid-7xx8mnucu55yw63we9va2gwr7uihbxwc68fxqp25x6tg4ftibpra?cvid=94631541bc0f4f89bfd59158d696ad7e">Follow us and access great exclusive content every day</a></p>

'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' (2006)

Patrick Suskind wrote the original novel in 1985. The film follows the same story about a man who has a superhuman sense of smell. He tracks down and murders beautiful women to create the ultimate scent. Dark and brilliant, it'll take you to the gutters of Paris.

<p>Audrey Hepburn stars in this fantastical comedy where her character, Nicole, works together with a thief (Peter O'Toole) to stop an art forgery, made by Nicole's father, being sold.</p><p>You may also like:<a href="https://www.starsinsider.com/n/477486?utm_source=msn.com&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=referral_description&utm_content=458166v3en-us"> Musicians who sued their own bands</a></p>

'How to Steal a Million' (1966)

Audrey Hepburn stars in this fantastical comedy where her character, Nicole, works together with a thief (Peter O'Toole) to stop an art forgery, made by Nicole's father, being sold.

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<p>'La Haine' is a staple of French cinema starring Vincent Cassel. It follows three young men in Paris on the day after a large protest. This dark depiction of the city will keep you on the edge of your seat.</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/channel/vid-7xx8mnucu55yw63we9va2gwr7uihbxwc68fxqp25x6tg4ftibpra?cvid=94631541bc0f4f89bfd59158d696ad7e">Follow us and access great exclusive content every day</a></p>

'La Haine' (1995)

'La Haine' is a staple of French cinema starring Vincent Cassel. It follows three young men in Paris on the day after a large protest. This dark depiction of the city will keep you on the edge of your seat.

<p>Ethel Jackson (Doris Day) accidentally goes to Paris to represent an American theater company. While she is there, she falls for Sam Putnam (Ray Bolger). It really does show you all around Paris in April!</p><p>You may also like:<a href="https://www.starsinsider.com/n/484338?utm_source=msn.com&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=referral_description&utm_content=458166v3en-us"> Discover the strangest patron saints in history</a></p>

'April in Paris' (1952)

Ethel Jackson (Doris Day) accidentally goes to Paris to represent an American theater company. While she is there, she falls for Sam Putnam (Ray Bolger). It really does show you all around Paris in April!

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<p>And she does it again. In 'Funny Face,' Audrey Hepburn plays a book clerk who is swept up into the world of fashion as a model. With beautiful shots all around Paris and gorgeous clothing, this film is sure to get you in the Parisian mood.</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/channel/vid-7xx8mnucu55yw63we9va2gwr7uihbxwc68fxqp25x6tg4ftibpra?cvid=94631541bc0f4f89bfd59158d696ad7e">Follow us and access great exclusive content every day</a></p>

'Funny Face' (1957)

And she does it again. In 'Funny Face,' Audrey Hepburn plays a book clerk who is swept up into the world of fashion as a model. With beautiful shots all around Paris and gorgeous clothing, this film is sure to get you in the Parisian mood.

<p>Kristen Scott Thomas and Ethan Hawke come together in this thriller. It's about the budding relationship between an academic and a mysterious widow, who may be hiding more than she lets on.</p><p>You may also like:<a href="https://www.starsinsider.com/n/492856?utm_source=msn.com&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=referral_description&utm_content=458166v3en-us"> The most mysterious shipwrecks in history</a></p>

'The Woman in the Fifth' (2011)

Kristen Scott Thomas and Ethan Hawke come together in this thriller. It's about the budding relationship between an academic and a mysterious widow, who may be hiding more than she lets on.

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<p>Bernardo Bertolucci directed this tale of toxic love and friendship. Based in 1968 during the protests in Paris, a brother, sister, and an American friend find themselves in a deep love triangle with no escape.</p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/channel/vid-7xx8mnucu55yw63we9va2gwr7uihbxwc68fxqp25x6tg4ftibpra?cvid=94631541bc0f4f89bfd59158d696ad7e">Follow us and access great exclusive content every day</a></p>

'The Dreamers' (2003)

Bernardo Bertolucci directed this tale of toxic love and friendship. Based in 1968 during the protests in Paris, a brother, sister, and an American friend find themselves in a deep love triangle with no escape.

<p>Wes Anderson wrote and directed this short film as a prequel to his other film 'The Darjeeling Limited' (2007). Natalie Portman and Jason Schwartzman star in this quirky story of love and tragedy.</p><p>You may also like:<a href="https://www.starsinsider.com/n/495271?utm_source=msn.com&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=referral_description&utm_content=458166v3en-us"> What does the Bible say about war?</a></p>

'Hotel Chevalier' (2007)

Wes Anderson wrote and directed this short film as a prequel to his other film 'The Darjeeling Limited' (2007). Natalie Portman and Jason Schwartzman star in this quirky story of love and tragedy.

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<p>Unusual for their bossy nature, 22 directors worked on this film. It's a sequence of 18 short films, each one showing a different side of Paris. They are all romantic and dreamy.</p> <p>Sources: (Condé Nast Traveler)</p> <p>See also: <a href="https://www.starsinsider.com/fashion/281518/how-to-dress-like-a-parisian">How to dress like a Parisian</a></p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/channel/vid-7xx8mnucu55yw63we9va2gwr7uihbxwc68fxqp25x6tg4ftibpra?cvid=94631541bc0f4f89bfd59158d696ad7e">Follow us and access great exclusive content every day</a></p>

'Paris, je t'aime' (2006)

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Movie review: ‘Challengers’ sizzles with bubbling ferocity

This image released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures shows Mike Faist, from left, Zendaya and Josh O'Connor in a scene from "Challengers." (Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures via AP)

By the time Luca Guadagnino’s erotically charged tennis film “Challengers” reaches its breathless, sweaty, pulse-pounding and deeply satisfying climax, you’ll be reaching for a cigarette, so to speak. Rarely is a film so sensorially captivating, every element of cinema, including script, cinematography, editing, score and performance blending together to create such a fizzy, frenzied brew, a chemical reaction of rage and lust sizzling with bubbling ferocity.

“Challengers” is a movie about bodies: sexy, strong, scarred bodies; bodies in glorious motion, crumpling under force, and drawn together over space and time, again and again. During a hard-fought match at a New Rochelle tournament, our players — which include the two men on the court and one woman, spectating on the sidelines — engage in body talk, communicating with gestures, glances, grunts and gasps, expressing what’s been left unsaid between them.

It’s the ultimate example of the concept that tennis isn’t just hitting a ball, it’s a relationship. This bit of wisdom was espoused by teen tennis phenom Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) 13 years prior to this match; now she watches this relationship unfold as two men smash the ball back and forth in front of her. They are her husband, Art Donaldson (Mike Faist), and her ex, Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor). Art is a honed, sculpted god, taped, gelled and optimized under Tashi’s watchful eye; Patrick is a grungy tennis bum, sleeping in his car, scamming sandwiches off sympathetic officials, and places to crash on Tinder. Over the course of each set, we’ll come to understand the complex relationship between this trio.

The script is the debut of playwright and novelist Justin Kuritzkes, who happens to be married to Celine Song, Oscar nominated this year for her debut feature, “Past Lives,” which also features a woman caught between two men, weighing passionate connection against pragmatic concerns. Where Song’s film was about the power and beauty of silence and patience, Kuritzkes’ script is hyperactive, the characters smart, cutting and acerbic, simultaneously deeply romantic and cynical. On a structural level, the screenplay can’t stop moving either. The central tennis match serves as a framing device for a series of flashbacks starting with the characters’ summer before college and covering every angst-ridden tangle in between.

But it’s Guadagnino’s filmmaking that elevates the material to truly transcendent heights. The film is shot with crisp, epic clarity by cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, whose camera continually draws triangles between our players, and collaborates brilliantly with editor Marco Costa, who cuts in time with the throbbing techno score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

The match starts with extreme wide shots, mannered and removed, before the camera swoops in on Tashi as the beat drops, zeroing in on the woman for whom these men have always been competing. But as we come back to the match, again and again, the camera gets closer to Art and Patrick, becoming erratic and experimental. By the end, we’re seeing shots from the point of view of the players, the court and even the ball, wildly flying back and forth across the net, batted around like every person in this triangle has been by the others at some point.

It’s through this tennis metaphor that Kuritzkes and Guadagnino explore the way power, desire and ambition are woven throughout intimate relationships in a fetishistic way. The ruthlessly professional Tashi seems to get off on psychologically and sexually controlling Art and Patrick, which the chaotic Patrick resists and to which Art happily submits. Their marriage is one of his surrender to her wishes as an act of pure love and devotion, even though she is helplessly drawn to Patrick’s dancing, destructive flame. The sexually omnivorous and opportunistic Patrick, for all his indecision, sees the situation clearly, but then again, they all seem to. They just want what they want.

Guadagnino is one of our greatest auteurs of desire, especially the forbidden kind, and “Challengers” is a deeply erotic and sexy movie even though it doesn’t have all that much sex. Like everything else — conversation, arguments, catharsis — the sex is subsumed into tennis. Still, it is an incredibly lusty film, and it’s rare to enjoy this kind of explosive screen chemistry among all three performers.

Faist, who comes from theater and dance, moves with beautiful intention, and Mukdeeprom’s camera regards his every angle with fascination. In contrast, O’Connor embodies the kind of louche, grimy and utterly dangerous sexuality that most women find infuriating and irresistible. Zendaya is as enthrallingly intelligent, mysterious and unpredictable as she has ever been, and it’s easily her best performance.

“Challengers” is the kind of sexy, engrossing somewhat twisted romance we don’t see enough of these days, a thrilling film, thrillingly rendered in its layered storytelling expressed in the purest cinematic form. Take advantage while you can.

‘CHALLENGERS’

4 stars (out of 4)

MPA rating: R (for language throughout, some sexual content and graphic nudity)

Running time: 2:11

How to watch: In theaters April 26

Reel Rundown: ‘What Jennifer Did’ gives view into dark recesses of mind of woman who resorted to murder of parents

America, it appears, is obsessed with crime. Or, at least, with true-crime programming

A 2022 poll by the public opinion and data company YouGov indicated that half of Americans enjoy true-crime content. Furthermore, one in three said that they devoured something related to true crime at least once a week.

Patricia Bryan, a professor emerita from the University of North Carolina Law School, has an opinion as to why this is. Co-author of the nonfiction book “Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland,” Bryan says it has to do with a confluence of what she describes as “escapism and entertainment.”

“It speaks to why people go into haunted houses or ride a roller coaster,” she said in an interview with her university’s magazine. “There’s something about facing danger when it’s not real, it’s not personal. People like to be scared or like to see the dark recesses of someone’s mind.”

That may explain why one of the highest-rated movies streaming on Netflix now is the documentary “What Jennifer Did.” Written and directed by Jenny Popplewell, the film tells the story of a 2010 murder that occurred in a Toronto suburb.

Jennifer Pan is the daughter of a Vietnamese couple who had immigrated to Canada. But while the couple, mother Bich Ha Pan and father Huei Hann Pan, had adapted to a middle-class Canadian lifestyle, they retained a strict Vietnamese attitude toward parenting.

Jennifer’s parents demanded excellence from her, and they controlled every aspect of her life, not allowing her to date or even attend parties all through high school. She had some musical talent, as her piano teacher Fernando Baldassini explains, but she fell short of her parents’ expectations in other areas. And over the years, she found ways to fool them into thinking that she was achieving what they expected of her.

Yet all this, and more, would come to light only gradually. And only after the night that she called emergency services in a panic, claiming that someone had broken into the house, tied her up and shot her parents.

With Jennifer’s mother dead and her father seriously wounded and in a coma, the police had little to go on but the young woman’s testimony. Investigators began to question her story, though, and their suspicions were confirmed when dad woke up.

Director Popplewell reveals all this slowly, even if her film’s title gives away who did what from the beginning.

Watching investigators slowly break down Jennifer’s story, confronting her with one contradiction after the next, isn’t that much different from watching what plays out each week on such fictional shows as “Law & Order” or “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”

Still, while the who, what, where and how aspects of the crime eventually are solved, Popplewell never truly gets to the heart of why. Yes, Jennifer Pan was controlled and manipulated, maybe even abused.

The fact is many children grow up in similar if not worse circumstances. Yet, few of them resort to murder.

Entertaining as it can be, maybe delving into the recesses of some minds is just too daunting a task for us to easily understand.

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A man in a hoodie crouches outside with a muddied hand out and a spider crawling on top of it.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

There are no fresh ideas in the French creepy-crawler “Infested,” yet this first feature from Sébastien Vanicek scurries forward with such pep and purpose that its shortcomings are easily forgivable. Add a handful of eager young actors, a sociopolitical slam and a claustrophobic location swarming with venomous spiders and you’ll be hunting for the DEET long before the credits roll.

Set in a low-income housing block in a Paris suburb, the action — and there’s plenty of it — is led by Kaleb (Théo Christine), an industrious youth who sells black-market sneakers and fusses over his illegal collection of small critters. His latest acquisition is a spider that, unbeknown to Kaleb, was smuggled from a Middle Eastern desert after rendering one of its captors agonizingly kaput. In less time than it takes to say “arachnophobia,” it will escape, reproduce like a bandit and send its deadly progeny scampering into every unsealed nook and cranny. Woe betide anyone not wearing a hoodie.

On one level, “Infested” is a well-worn, thoroughly efficient creature feature with sleek effects and pell-mell pacing. While not especially scary, the movie gains traction from a script (by Vanicek and Florent Bernard) that finds ways to add a smidgen of back story to its panicked characters. So as the building becomes a giant, web-draped cocoon, the rapid-fire squabbling among Kaleb, his sister (Lisa Nyarko) and his onetime best friend (Finnegan Oldfield) feels entirely authentic. As do the labyrinthine corridors, the constantly failing lighting (props to Alexandre Jamin’s stuttering photography) and Kaleb’s kindhearted concern for his neighbors.

A police lockdown cues social commentary that, while glaringly obvious, is also apt in a movie whose French title translates as “vermin” and whose gun-and-gas-toting authorities may have their own ideas about the term’s definition.

Infested Not Rated. Running time: 1 hour 46 minutes. Watch on Shudder .

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James Powers Hollywood Reporter The trouble is that Paris When It Sizzles seems constantly on the verge of hilarity but it never gets entirely into it. Apr 9, 2019 Full Review Nell Minow Movie Mom ...
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On April 8, 1964, Paramount unveiled Audrey Hepburn and William Holden starrer Paris When It Sizzles in theaters. The Hollywood Reporter's original review, headlined "'Paris When It Sizzles ...
Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
gbheron 11 December 2001. "Paris When It Sizzles" reunites Audrey Hepburn and William Holden, but this film is no "Sabrina". It's not even close. The story pits raconteur screenwriter Holden against a fast approaching deadline. The screenplay is due within days, and he has no plot, characters, or dialogue.
Paris When It Sizzles
Paris When It Sizzles is a 1964 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Quine from a screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the 1952 French film Holiday for Henrietta by Julien Duvivier and Henri Jeanson.The film stars William Holden and Audrey Hepburn, with Grégoire Aslan, Raymond Bussières, Noël Coward, and Tony Curtis.. The film's title derives from the Cole Porter song "I Love ...
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Parents Need to Know. Parents need to know that Paris When it Sizzles is a charming Hollywood romance from the 1960s starring William Holden and Audrey Hepburn who come together in order to complete a movie script. Violence is usually shown in the movie-within-a-movie, with people shot dead and physical fighting.
Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
Paris When It Sizzles: Directed by Richard Quine. With William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Grégoire Aslan, Raymond Bussières. The sprightly young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter helps him over his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots.
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An in-depth review of the film Paris When It Sizzles (1964), aka Paris - When It Sizzles, directed by Richard Quine, featuring William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Gregoire Aslan. ... What probably started out as a well-meant satire on the art of movie-making ended up as a chaotic deconstructed mess, next to which Woody Allen's more free format ...
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The sprightly young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter helps him over his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots.
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Paris When It Sizzles fizzles. The Richard Quine-George Axelrod production is a romantic comedy that, as Axelrod himself describes the story - within - a story that weaves through the film, is ...
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In 1964, Paramount reteamed Audrey Hepburn and William Holden in their second film together, hoping to repeat the enormous success of Sabrina (1954) ten years earlier. Taking its title from the Cole Porter tune "I Love Paris," Paris When It Sizzles was a revised remake of the French film La Fete à Henriette (1952). William Holden plays a scriptwriter more focused on drunken carousing than ...
Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time. Richard Quine. Director. George Axelrod. Screenplay. Julien Duvivier. Story.
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Paris When it Sizzles goes full ridiculous in this charming, downright delightful romantic comedy so silly that you cannot help but smile the whole way through. "one of the rare times that Hollywood does its best to not take itself so seriously". Starring legends Audrey Hepburn and William Holden, the film centers on famed screenwriter, Richard ...
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The movie within a movie idea was such a good concept. The way they included its own title sequence and credits was genius and I was really looking forward to what the rest of the story had to offer. But the movie the characters were picturing was so terrible it made Paris When It Sizzles itself terrible. Honestly, it was good until Tony Curtis ...
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In Paris, the successful alcoholic forty-two years old screenplay writer Richard Benson has three days to write a script to his producer that has paid in advance. The typist Gabrielle Simpson arrives to his hotel to type the screenplay. Along the three days, she helps him to develop the story and they fall in love for each other.
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Paris When It Sizzles Reviews. 1964. 1 hr 50 mins. Comedy. NR. Watchlist. Where to Watch. A screenwriter spends his time enjoying Paris instead of working on the script he was hired to complete ...
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Paris When It Sizzles was panned when released in 1964 and doesn't exist in Audrey Hepburn's diamond-encrusted canon as we know it today. No frame from the movie has been turned into decorative pop art. You probably won't find a postcard with the image of Hepburn and William Holden dancing around a Paris hotel room to send home from your weekend in the French capital.
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Key Takeaways: Paris When It Sizzles is a captivating movie set in Paris, blending romance, comedy, and mystery. It showcases the power of imagination and the magic of falling in love in the City of Lights. The film's star-studded cast, stylish fashion, and unique storytelling make it a must-watch for anyone who loves movies.
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In an effort to get moving on his project, Richard hires a live-in secretary, Gabrielle Simpson (Audrey Hepburn), to help him. Soon enough, the two fall in love and spend the time enacting various scenes from the unwritten screenplay as the time slips away and Richard's deadline looms. Richard Quine directs George Axelrod's acerbic script ...
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