Funny Face

Quality women's magazine editor Maggie Prescott and her lead photographer Dick Avery are busy searching for a new face for the magazine's cover, a face that could turn the fashion world upside down. It occurs to them to show a woman as an intellectual who knows how to read books, for which a noisy company goes to a photo shoot in a small bookstore. Having encountered the saleswoman Jo there, Dick realizes that her funny face is the future standard of beauty. Jo thinks the people who broke into her place are crazy, but accepts the offer to go with them to a shoot in Paris. After all, her idol, Professor Floster, preaches a new style of communication. And this company goes to Paris, forgetting that it is difficult to work there, because it is a city of lovers... Read more A classic film that is almost on the same level as other cult films with the participation of Audrey Hepburn. Funny Face, directed by Stanley Donen, was the first of three collaborations for Donen and Audrey Hepburn. The musical itself is based on a stage musical from 1927, where Fred Astaire also played, together with his sister. True, the plots of both versions are significantly different from each other. Except that several original songs were taken for the film version. This happened for the reason that in fact the film combines two stories at once. The first is based on the unsuccessful Broadway production of "Wedding Bells" by Leonard Hersh, and the second is actually partially based on the plot of the 1927 musical. An interesting fact, the character of Fred Astaire himself was drawn from a real-life photographer, Richard Avedon. In addition, it was the photos of Richard Avedon that were used in the film itself, including the photo with Joe Stockton, with which the whole story began. Later, the image of Hepburn's heroine, as well as some elements of the film itself, were used by various musicians and singers both for their songs and for music videos and stage images. So, for example, in 2011, in Beyoncé's Countdown clip, the singer did her hair, which directly refers to the image of Audrey.