Love In The Afternoon

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US 1957, d Billy Wilder

Wilder's tribute to his idol, Ernst Lubitsch, once again casts Hepburn alongside an older leading man - in this case Gary Cooper. The age difference is such that Cooper spends much of the film submerged in some of the darkest shadows anywhere outside of film noir, but this doesn't obscure the magic on show. Great running gags with a string quartet and a classic railway station.