75
Metascore
16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100CineVueCineVueFilms such as the exquisite Funny Face, where all the ingredients came together in picture perfect composition, allows us to share, even if only briefly, in this land of fantasy and make-believe.
- 100The IndependentGeoffrey MacnabThe IndependentGeoffrey MacnabStanley Donen's 1957 musical represents a triumph of form over content.
- 88LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenLarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenYou can argue with the movie in your head, even while you admit—say, when Dick and Jo dance their way across a stream by lightly stepping onto a floating raft—that your heart is having all sorts of fun.
- 80Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichSensation trumps cogitation-unsurprising in a Hollywood production-which doesn't negate the enduring allure of this beautiful bauble.
- 80EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonA timeless musical treat and the most fun you can have with really elegant clothes on.
- 80The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherRoger Edens, the talented producer, and Stanley Donen, the director, have turned the whole thing into a lovely phantasm made up of romance, tourism and chic.
- 60Time Out LondonCath ClarkeTime Out LondonCath ClarkeThere are some gorgeous comic touches.
- 60Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe film’s sophistication is compromised by the rather dumb plot, but some of the numbers—especially “Think Pink” and “Bonjour Paris”—are standouts.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawHepburn is in the boho-gamine mode, and this has a brittle charm, (arguably more than in Breakfast At Tiffany's four years later) but there is something unconvincing in the May-to-December pairing of 28-year-old Hepburn and 58-year-old Astaire and also something grumpy and not particularly classy about the way this film shrieks with laughter at silly modern women filling their empty heads with trendy Parisian intellectualism.
- 40The Irish TimesTara BradyThe Irish TimesTara BradyAstaire’s dancing and Audrey’s charm sweeten a bitter pill. But unearthing this vicious artefact is not unlike exhibiting a medieval chastity belt.