BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961) - ♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Blake Edwards

Written by - George Axelrod (based on a novel by Truman Capote)

Starring - Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney

"BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY's is arguably one of the most beloved and downright iconic films of its times, especially because it features AUDREY HEPBURN in one of her most memorable performances. 

The film was inspired by a novella by acclaimed author TRUMAN CAPOTE, although it downplays many of the original works' hottest and most controversially racy topics. It is the story of a socialite who drifts to all the social gatherings and parties in the hope of finding a rich man who will marry her, and finding an unusual shelter at Tiffany's, a jewellery where she says she can find enough order and glamour to control the madness that sometimes surrounds her. 

Under BLAKE EDWARDS' skilled direction, the film is at once glamorous and humorous, as well as a subtle but relevant satire on the film's themes of high society exhuberance and morally deranged ambitions of its times, that are frighteningly relevant to today's world too. Famously, the film softens the blow on these themes, and in true American cinema spirit, it alters the ending of the original work. But there's enough poignance in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY's to make it more than the charming fashion statement its overexposure in pop culture to this day would have you believe. 

HEPBURN is absoluely radiant. Her beauty matches her skill in portraying concealed vulnerability in her character that is as much a girl next door as she is a guerrilla fighter in her strange intents and ambition - not to mention that her skills as a comedienne, which she had shown in the past before, make her an excellent and enriching presence in the film, able to forgive BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY's neatly packaged structure."

Romantic Comedy, USA