LACMA (Venue Partner)
5905 Wilshire Blvd
323.857.6000
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They All Laughed
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Friday Oct 23, 2009 (9:40pm)
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Directions: LACMA is located on Wilshire Boulevard between Fairfax and Curson avenues—midway between Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica. From the Santa Monica Freeway (10), take Fairfax Avenue north 2 miles to Wilshire Boulevard.
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$10 general admission.$7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
Private detectives Gazzara and Ritter follow two women (Stratten in her first starring role, and Hepburn in her last) suspected of cheating on their husbands around Manhattan. "Shot entirely on location, this improvisatory film captures a New York rarely seen in movies. Bogdanovich avoided well-known locations, instead finding landmarks known only to New Yorkers—brownstone apartment buildings, marble courthouses, hip shoe stores, white sidewalks, busy street-corners. Propelled by a soundtrack that mixes country hits with pop standards by Sinatra and Louie Armstrong, the film at times feels like a musical, with its long dialogue-free sequences of characters following each other, bumping into each other, watching each other through windows, falling in love. In places They All Laughed is so unabashedly personal that certain viewers may flinch from the self-exposure. Ritter's character is openly a Bogdanovich surrogate and he helps Stratten escape an overbearing, jealous husband. The romance between Hepburn and Gazzara is rooted in their real-life affair, and the regret felt by Hepburn's character references her own status as an aging star. This is less a work of fiction than a scrapbook of emotions and moods, a kind of memoir-as-cinema; and the film refuses to deliver the expected happy ending—the love here is avowedly not meant to be."—Patrick McKay, Stylus Magazine.
Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever
1981/color/115 min. | Scr/dir: Peter Bogdanovich; w/ Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, John Ritter, Dorothy Stratten.
