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"A woman happily in love burns her soufflé, a woman unhappily in love, she forgets to turn on the oven. "~ Baron St. Fontanel (Sabrina 1954)
Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) is the chauffeur’s young and scruffy daughter. They live in Long Island above the garage of their employers, the effluent Larrabees. Polishing cars and helping out her father, she is reconciled to a life of unrequited love. The object of her affections is the charming but feckless playboy, David Larrabee (William Holden). Her free time is spent perched atop trees, staring into the glorious dances where David waltzes one giggly socialite after another. At the other end of the spectrum, is David’s elder brother Linus Larrabee (Humphrey Bogart), businessman extraordinaire. With no place for emotions in his life, Linus is the problem-solver, the money-maker and the quintessential highstreet tycoon.
Sabrina is soon sent off to France for a cooking course by her father, who hopes that the distance and the charms of Paris will make her forget David. In between soufflés and sauces, Sabrina learns poise, charm and confidence. She learns how to live life and instead of scooting from her problems, decides to return to Long Island and try her luck with David once more.
A stunned David is predictably swooped off his feet by the new and sophisticated Sabrina. He pursues her with a single-minded determination, while conveniently forgetting the small detail that he is engaged to be married. Add to that the fact that the marriage is infact a merger between two prominent business houses and the foothold on which rests a million-dollar deal.
Enter Linus and his attempts to thwart the fledgling romance. He decides that the best course of action would be to woo Sabrina himself. While the plan seems to be proceeding splendidly, Linus had not taken into consideration how susceptible he himself would be to Sabrina’s considerable charms.
A refreshingly simple movie with the effervescent Hepburn steering it along, Sabrina is a delight to watch. Fifteen minutes into the first-half of the movie and you want to shed your brashness and cynicism, modulate your tone and bottle up some of that lovely freshness that Audrey Hepburn wears like a second skin.
Sabrina is soon sent off to France for a cooking course by her father, who hopes that the distance and the charms of Paris will make her forget David. In between soufflés and sauces, Sabrina learns poise, charm and confidence. She learns how to live life and instead of scooting from her problems, decides to return to Long Island and try her luck with David once more.
A stunned David is predictably swooped off his feet by the new and sophisticated Sabrina. He pursues her with a single-minded determination, while conveniently forgetting the small detail that he is engaged to be married. Add to that the fact that the marriage is infact a merger between two prominent business houses and the foothold on which rests a million-dollar deal.
Enter Linus and his attempts to thwart the fledgling romance. He decides that the best course of action would be to woo Sabrina himself. While the plan seems to be proceeding splendidly, Linus had not taken into consideration how susceptible he himself would be to Sabrina’s considerable charms.
A refreshingly simple movie with the effervescent Hepburn steering it along, Sabrina is a delight to watch. Fifteen minutes into the first-half of the movie and you want to shed your brashness and cynicism, modulate your tone and bottle up some of that lovely freshness that Audrey Hepburn wears like a second skin.
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