Movie Notes: Singin’ In The Rain

Synopsis
It’s 1927, and Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), cinema’s biggest stars, are forced to adapt their talents to the latest movie technology: sound.

Synopsis
It’s 1927, and Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), cinema’s biggest stars, are forced to adapt their talents to the latest movie technology: sound.

Synopsis
Adam (Kirk Douglas) and Alex (Farrah Fawcett), research scientists living on moon of Saturn, are visited by Benson (Harvey Keitel), delivering a robot assistant named Hector.

This gem slipped under my radar after all these years. It’s a 1967 road film featuring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney, turning in expert, mature performances as Joanna and Mark Wallace, married for twelve years. The film cuts between several of the couple’s trips to Europe, showing different stages of their relationship. The tricky thing is there isn’t any framing to the leaps in time, leaving only visual cues in the hairstyles, clothing, who they’re with, and above all the couple’s behavior towards one another.