Roman Holiday (1953)
iMDB Rating: 8.1
Date Released : 2 September 1953
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stars : Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power
Movie Quality : HDrip
Format : MKV
Size : 870 MB
Roman Holiday Movie Plot
Princess Anne embarks on a highly publicized tour of European capitals. When she and her royal entourage arrive in Rome, she begins to rebel against her restricted, regimented schedule. One night Anne sneaks out of her room, hops into the back of a delivery truck and escapes her luxurious confinement. However, a sedative she was forced to take earlier starts to take effect, and the Princess is soon fast asleep on a public bench. She is found by Joe Bradley, an American newspaper reporter stationed in Rome. He takes her back to his apartment. The next morning Joe dashes off to cover the Princess Anne press conference, unaware that she is sleeping on his couch. Once he realizes his good fortune, Joe promises his editor an exclusive interview with the Princess.
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Roman Holiday Movie Review :
Lyrical relic of a vanished civilization
This charming comedy is justly famous as the film that made the whole world fall in love with Audrey Hepburn and half the world want to run out and buy a Vespa scooter. Hepburn was always beguiling, but in some of her later roles she tended to overplay the winsomeness. Here every note she hits is just about perfect.
And speaking of notes, pay special attention to the score by the great Georges Auric. If the film had been produced in the manner of modern romantic comedies, the sound track would have been larded with pop hits by Perry Como, Dinah Shore, and Frankie Laine, which would have done an awful lot to destroy the magic. Instead Auric’s complex, vibrant, evocative music complements the story’s inherent lyricism without upstaging it. In an era of bombastic film scoring, this seems a miracle.
Someone once said that Audrey Hepburn’s was the beauty of possibility and transformation — she was always in motion, always becoming something else. "Roman Holiday" is very much of a piece with that notion. On the surface, the film is about a princess who disguises herself as a "commoner". But in truth she’s actually pretending to be a princess, at least at first. She finally becomes authentic — is transformed and prepared to deal with her destiny — only through the ennobling power of love and sacrifice. That’s one heck of a mythic subtext and does a lot to explain "Roman Holiday’s" enduring power.
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