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...Hepburn and the film artfully avoid the saccharine. Like the burnt peanuts which occasionally make their way into the Cracker Jacks Varjak eats, a bittersweet ache makes its way into "Breakfast at Tiffany's." This only adds to the confection...
Scheduled before Hepburn's death, an eerie, slightly macabre coincidence marks the Valentine's Day screening of the 1961 classic. But the tender off-beat quality of the romance between Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) and Paul Varjak (George Peppard, perhaps better known to younger viewers as a member of the A-team) is a stimulus to budding and full-blooming romance alike. And the incredible luminosity of the shots of 1960s New York combined with the timeless, inimitable glamour of Hepburn herself make "Breakfast at Tiffany's" a wonderful antidote to the drizzle of Cambridge in February...
...barely furnished apartment in a Manhattan brownstone. Golightly peeks out from behind her door one morning to find that she has a new downstairs neighbor. Even wearing a wrinkled tuxedo shirt, a pastel blue sleeping mask pushed up on her forehead and purple-tassled earplugs in her ears, Hepburn conjures an almost unearthly elegance onscreen...
...movie lies in its depiction of a New York, that-if it ever existed at all-is long gone. The on-the-street glamour, the raucous high society party Golightly throws, the cleanness and safety of the city (Golightly indiscriminately buzzes strangers into the apartment building) and, of course, Hepburn's incredible wardrobe place the film in a never-never land of sweet fantasy much like Tiffany's itself...
...even the sumptuous elegance of Tiffany's is no match for Hepburn's long, lean and striking grace...