Breakfast at Tiffany's

                                                                                                                           Vogue

"I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it's like: it's like Tiffany's". Audrey Hepburn walks around in a small New York apartment with a sleeping band on her eyes. It has fake eyelashes on the outside. She's talking to a man she saw for the first time. It's her neighbor. 

The film opens with beautiful New York boulevards standing still early in the morning. With very few people around, some flags wave on beautiful old buildings. The Big Apple presents itself as the land of opportunities. For this young and beautiful woman, the city offers a solitary morning walk in a night gown. Eating a croissant with a cup of coffee, she stares into the shop window of a diamond store: the Tiffany's. The ultimate place for a 'girl's happiness'. 

Being foolish looks natural on this character. 'Lime-light is bad for a girl's complexion' she says. And she thinks that she is going to marry the future president of Brazil. She even manages to feel enthusiastic about a guy only because of his money. That common combination of distorted sentimentality: money causing excitement. 'She's a phony, but a real phony,' somebody comments. The newspapers refer to her as a 'glamour girl'. Men continue to do the job.

In all her materialism, she constantly finds a man to love her. And advocates freedom too. About femininity, she has a natural grasp: before listening to a letter of good-bye, she says "A girl can't handle that sort of thing without her lipstick." Another man loves her. A happy ending of a sort.

My favourite scene: https://youtu.be/uirBWk-qd9A