Time Out says
Capote was right about one thing: Audrey Hepburn was miscast. She was the aristo-chic daughter of a Dutch baroness and so queenly it is too much of a stretch to believe in her as born dirt poor in Texas. That was Capote’s Golighty – married at 14, she left a brood of barefoot stepkids to run away to New York and reinvent herself. Still you can’t deny that Hepburn fizzes: she’s mischievous, tomboyish and so unutterably elegant – more than a match for Capote’s bon mots.
It was the movie’s sentimentality that got Capote’s goat. And it is hard to pardon the transformation of Golightly – who underneath a skittish exterior was an acid social observer and very self-knowing – into a frothy pea-brain. Intriguingly, in the early ’80s Capote was behind a talked-about remake with a teenage Jodie Foster. ‘Ideal casting,’ he opined. Maybe now it’s finally time for the unexpurgated ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’?
Release Details
- Rated:PG
- Release date:Friday 21 January 2011
- Duration:115 mins
Cast and crew
- Director:Blake Edwards
- Screenwriter:George Axelrod
- Cast:
- Audrey Hepburn
- George Peppard
- Patricia Neal
- Buddy Ebsen
- Mickey Rooney
- John McGiver
- Martin Balsam
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