Sabrina (1954)

Tahun-rilis: 1954

Produser: Billy Wilder

Sutradara: Billy Wilder

Sinematografer: Charles Lang

Music-composer: Frederick Hollander

Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Humprey Bogart, William Holden

Genre: Drama Romance

Duration: 113 min

I just watched Sabrina, directed by the famous Billy Wilder. It’s been a while since last time I saw Billy Wilder’s film, so right now I’m checking my list of all Wilder’s I’ve watched.......

Well, in my list I only got Ace in the Hole, starring Kirk Douglas, a movie that is hard to forget. But I think I’ve seen more than that.

In spite of that, I think the movie is very good. The stars are superb. The plot is awesome. The music is great.

The story tells about a love story of Sabrina, daughter of a driver of a very rich family, Larrabee, and  sons of the family. Sabrina, who always dream of David, one of the sons and become his princess, finally had her chance after she came back from France attending a cooking school. She matured and become so beautiful that David don’t even recognize her face. Their love affair goes on with obstacles here and there, especially since their social-background differences. But some accident occur that the story become hard to guess and interesting to follow.

David is played by William Holden. I’ve notice his face in a lot of movies that unfortunately I can’t remember except, of course, Bridge on River Kwai(and Sunset Boulevard). The other Larrabee is played by Humprey Bogart. Sabrina, the main character, is played by Audrey Hepburn. To be honest, this is the first time I saw her movie. I’ve seen her Tiffany’s poster many times, but I’ve never seen her acting except her small role on Spielberg’s Always, which is not on her best period anymore (even though she is still very good). One thing I can tell you about her performance, she’s not all beauty, her acting might be even better than her appearance. However, all the cast are awesome. So probably it is also mighty influenced by the director.

The music is superb. It’s strange I suddenly forgot how it sounds right now. I still remember it a while ago, though. But I still remember my impression. It is very good!(What?)

One thing that mainly makes me sad about this movie is because I have to watched the movie in part, and the last 20 minutes was not a very good watching experience for me for my bad headache, so I’m not sure about that part.

Overall, the movie is great. Totally recommended!

Bedtime Story (1964)

Title: Bedtime Story

Release-year: 1964

Producer: Stanley Shapiro

Director: Ralph Levy

Starring: Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones)

Genre: Drama Comedy

Duration: 99 min

Sorry guys, it’s been some months now since last time I posted an article. It’s not that I’ve lost interest watching movies, for I’ve changed my discipline from film to animation and comic, but it’s just I’ve been so busy drawing, drawing, and drawing. Thus I haven’t watched any film either for months until yesterday. Bed Time Stories, starring Marlon Brando and David Niven.

The film has very good drama and comedy. Even my mother laughed at it. The story is really good, how these two guys, Marlon and David, try to oversmart each other with their tricks and scenarios, but eventually their tricks trapped themselves in a hard and delicate situation where they have to cover their fake identity while trying to get a women’s attention (Ms. Walker, played by Shirley Jones)

David Niven and Brando try to get Shirley Jones' attention

I also like the cartoonized way the director make the film. Especially Brando, the director, Ralph Levy, create a character that seem a little unrealistic, and at a dramatic moment he seem so exaggerated, making funny faces and weird gesture that people find on cartoon TV.

Brando's cartoonic acting

However, I must warn that the character, even though they are attractive, charismatic, interesting, and exciting, they both are not good people. They bet using human, they lie to get what they want, they do bad things all the time. I can’t remember they do any good deed during the film.

Overall, no doubt this is a very good film. I enjoy my time watching it.