May 4th was the day when Audrey Hepburn was born, so Happy Birthday, one of the World's biggest stars ever!
I honestly don't know how much today's society is watching and enjoying your movies, but I sure know that people should always remember you.
I know that your creations will always be enjoyable, and spread strong messages, empowering women all around the world, giving them a solid example of vertu, beauty, elegance, kindness.
All these are values that come from the inside, from sensibility, empathy, sympathy, intelligence, and education.
Audrey had the soul of a child and a dreamer. She was playing many times and did it with grace and sincerity.
She was such a dreamer, that in the end, in many of her films, she took the parts that were actually speaking about her, as in many of her roles, we can find facets of her personality and her femininity.
I think that Audrey Hepburn was one of the best examples of how a true lady should be, at all times.
Dear reader, you might be one of the people who saw all her movies.
You might be someone who barely knows, or cares, who Audrey Hepburn was.
In both cases, if you are curious to learn more about a wonderful actress who did some very good movies and had an impact on the Cinema world and not only (she was a Unicef Ambassador, did lots of good in her life and career), you could start by watching some of her films.
In my opinion, among other things she did, her films are her best legacy.
She filmed in the 50s and 60s era when some of the best film directors were active, and the cinema industry was booming.
I will mention here only one of her best movies, but if you are more curious and hungry for some great cinema, watch all the Audrey Hepburn movies that you can find, online, anywhere.
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
This is one of my Top - 3 favorite movies with dear Audrey, even if I have the feeling that the movie is a bit underestimated. Almost forgotten, possibly, today.
Young women all over the world, I strongly advise you to see this movie, if it's the only one you will see made by Audrey Hepburn and team.
In my personal opinion, it's the movie where she gave her best acting performance, proving her incredible skills, deep sensibility, capacity to bring on the screens an innocent, lonely, fragile young girl, whose strength relies on her love and purity.
In my opinion, Audrey Hepburn should have received another Oscar for her interpretation as Arianna.
Produced and directed by Billy Wilder, starring Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn, the screenplay is based on the 1920 Claude Anet novel Ariane, jeune fille Russe (Ariane, Young Russian Girl).
If you are someone curious about exploring the human soul, in all its depths and nuances, then you should see this movie, as it is a great example of how a huge actress knew to bring to life the entire palette of a young girls' emotions, feelings, struggles, beliefs.
The movie is much more complex, though, with many touches of bright, intelligent humor.
When I saw it the first time, I mischanged it for a comedy. Only later, I understood the profound drama of a lonely, deeply lonely girl, that has almost no chance to be loved and cherished in a cold, unkind, unsincere world.
The plot is about Ariane's deep, desperate need to be loved (which was also Audrey's, all her life, this is why I consider the character to be her most heart-felt, sincere one).
She fells in love with an older man, who also had or said to have many affairs.
To mask her desperate loneliness and need for love (she was also a musician, a sensible soul), Ariane invents a long series of lovers, making up the independence that she didn't have, as she was closely surveyed by her father.
I am only sorry that Audrey did not do more movies, with characters who spoke so deeply about the female soul.
I am sorry that her talent was somehow doubled by her fragility, sensibility, and difficult past.
She was an absolute master to bring to attention the many lights and shadows of a woman who felt deeply, in that contemporary society, with those specific struggles.
She was an absolute master of showing how a women's deep virtue and generosity, and capacity to love, to dream for a better world, had to struggle with misconceptions, superficiality, even cruelty - in a word: with society.