Music Box — Sunday, 2pm
With one of
the most well known plots in movie history, it is the more insidious
aspects of this romantic favorite that lend it an enduring appeal. In
the popular imagination neither Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) nor
Paul Varjak (George Peppard) are remembered for how they pay their rent.
To face facts, each of them is a kept person, accepting money from
dates or steady lovers. Therein lies much of the appeal of these two
characters, who eventually fall in love. Neither is perfect but they
have big dreams. They use hope to get through today and to forget the
past. Emblematic of this existence is the character of Cat, Holly's
rice-paper-thin-metaphor of an orange tabby. Content when given a saucer
of milk and happy to stay for some fun, this pet demands no commitments
and wouldn't notice them anyway. As much a film about the masks we use
to face the world as it is about love (which never really comes), it's
fitting that Cat ends up being tossed from a cab into the pouring rain.
Untethered and free is fun to a point, but only in the movies do the
girl and the boy come back for a kiss, and rescue the sloppy and matted
Cat from the downpour. (1961, 115 min, unconfirmed format) JH - Cine-File.info
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