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eturn engagement<br />
48 | <strong>Cineplex</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | april <strong>2012</strong><br />
meet<br />
Holly<br />
golightly<br />
rom coffee shops to dorm<br />
rooms to IKEA showrooms,<br />
Audrey Hepburn has spent five<br />
decades staring down from walls,<br />
tiara in place, lashes impossibly<br />
curled. Yet those who haven’t seen<br />
Blake Edwards’ 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s<br />
— from which the image (or images, there are<br />
many variations on the theme) originates —<br />
have no idea how complicated, sometimes<br />
unlikeable, the character behind those sweet<br />
doe eyes really is.<br />
Hepburn plays Holly Golightly, a country girl<br />
who flees the south for New York City where she<br />
reinvents herself as a glamorous social butterfly<br />
and sets out to snag a rich husband. She’s a<br />
phony, no question. But when, in a romantic<br />
plotline absent from the Truman Capote<br />
novella on which the film’s based, Golightly<br />
accidentally steals the heart of her financially<br />
challenged neighbour (George Peppard) it’s<br />
just possible that his love will redeem her. Cue<br />
Henry Mancini’s glorious “Moon River,” which<br />
won the Oscar for Best Original Song. —MW<br />
Breakfast at Tiffany’s screens<br />
as part of <strong>Cineplex</strong>’s Classic<br />
Film Series on <strong>April</strong> 18 th and 22 nd .<br />
Go to <strong>Cineplex</strong>.com/events<br />
for times and locations.
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